THE ANALYSIS OF CRUCIAL WAYS OF STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DISPLAY OF DISHONESTY IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Abstract

The article was written on a currently crucial for the modern society issue that is dishonesty of teachers and students in the field of education and science. The difficulty of ethical management of this phenomenon is analyzed. The main forms of non-ethical behavior and their social and economic and psychological consequences are given. To estimate the extent of the problem, the results of big foreign sociological studies are given. The analysis of information given in the official websites of universities (Russian federal universities and the leaders of QS World University Ratings 2012 in Europe, Asia and America) was prepared to study the attention which is paid to the problem of academic fraud (and plagiarism as one of its forms). The codes of ethics of higher educational institutions are analyzed as the way to prevent the display of academic fraud. Special attention is paid to the certain examples of struggle against academic fraud in higher educational institutions in Russia and western countries including the application of the specialized software. The struggle against plagiarism in the field of education and science is broadly complicated by the fact that the goal of plagiarism is to fit the research activity publishing standards instead of getting profit (the author doesn’t suffer material damage). The author suggests that the certain means of struggling the facts of academic fraud and its prevention, on the example of plagiarism. It is noticed that the eradicating of incorrect citing in short-term perspective is possible through maximizing the explicitness of educational and research processes. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-2-15