Abstract
This article is about plagiarism from the perspective of university students. It presents data collected among 309 students at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc, to reveal attitudes of future lawyers towards the issue of plagiarism. The research follows previous research made at Mendel University in Brno. Next to the revealing attitudes of students towards plagiarism, the article compares results achieved at both institutions and tries to reveal the most critical factors leading to plagiarism. Moreover, data obtained at Palacký University are put into the broader theoretical context of research on plagiarism.
Highlights
The plagiarism issue is often discussed in the classrooms and public in relation to public officials and politicians. In 2018 alone, two government ministers in the Czech Republic were forced to resign due to plagiarism, making the creation of a new government after elections more complicated
We can claim that students who went for the title with the fraud and often plagiarized will have some deficiencies in some parts of the curriculum, not mentioning a lack of moral principles and violation of ethical standards
This article deals with plagiarism in students' opinions in legal education at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Summary
The plagiarism issue is often discussed in the classrooms and public in relation to public officials and politicians. In 2018 alone, two government ministers in the Czech Republic were forced to resign due to plagiarism, making the creation of a new government after elections more complicated. Lecturers at the universities are dealing with plagiarism much more frequently than mentioned in the media. Because plagiarism is one of the critical issues of modern education, it might well be considered "a litmus paper" of the quality of education in the Czech Republic and in other countries. We can claim that students who went for the title with the fraud and often plagiarized will have some deficiencies in some parts of the curriculum, not mentioning a lack of moral principles and violation of ethical standards. This article deals with plagiarism in students' opinions in legal education at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is an important issue, especially for students within this faculty. Similar situations are not rare and can be observed in different countries, as Starovoytova (2017) demonstrated
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