Irene Glendinning

• Manager at Coventry University

Peer review is crucial for academic research, when checking manuscripts for publishing, considering proposals for research funding, and deciding which submitted contributions to include in conference programmes. Peer reviewers are tasked with assessing readability, scientific merit, accuracy, reliability, novelty, relevance, completeness and focus....

When students submit written assignments for assessment, they are generally trusted to have completed these honestly, and to have benefitted from the opportunity to learn. Academic integrity breaches are sometimes detected during the assessment process. Some common examples of integrity breaches during students’ academic writing include contract ch...

The “Guidelines on Developing Effective Academic Integrity Policies” is a comprehensive, evidence-based framework created by the FAITH Project for higher education institutions. It serves as a reference to help institutions design, implement, and maintain academic integrity policies that are clear, accessible, and contextually relevant. You can exp...

When students submit work for assessment that that they did not create themselves, unless this can be both identified and proven, the students will unfairly gain credits towards their qualification. For text-based plagiarism or collusion, even if the student has tried to disguise it, it is likely to be detected and evidenced if text matching softwa...

A robust approach to academic integrity is an essential requirement for a higher education provider to ensure that academic and research quality and standards remain strong and are not compromised by malpractice and corruption, by staff, students or from external influences. Even institutions with a well-established institution-wide strategy for ac...

We used the PRISMA scoping review framework developed by Tricco et al. (2018). We generated as many alternative keywords as possible for “academic integrity” and “school education,” which resulted in 39 keywords in total. We conducted a literature search in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The keywords search yielded 3,928 studies in total...

This report sets out the results from a study conducted during 2017-18 for the Council for Higher Education Accreditation / CHEA International Quality Group (CHEA/CIQG). The study was designed to capture information about actions and responses of accreditation and quality assurance bodies (AQABs) for addressing different forms of corruption in hig...

Artifcial Intelligence (AI) tools are constantly being released into the public domain. As with all new technological innovations, this brings a range of opportunities and challenges for education: primarily for educators and learners. Tere is an increasing interest in the academic community and beyond to use Artifcial Intelligence in Education (AI...

In our recent research we found evidence of corruption in education all over the world. Integrity in education and research depends on reliability and trust. All stakeholders involved in education, have a vested interest in maintaining quality and standards and for identifying and helping to eradicate corrupt practices, but it is difficult for indi...

This paper presents and compares selected results based on questionnaire responses from higher education teachers and students across 38 countries in Europe and Eurasia, conducted between 2010 and 2019. The research explored national and institutional perceptions and approaches to academic integrity, particularly focusing on plagiarism and academic...

Research to date about academic integrity has mainly focused on higher education. However, the question keeps surfacing about why many students have not acquired appropriate understanding and skills relating to ethical conduct and integrity by the age of 18, to adequately prepare them for their future career and on-going educational and work-relate...

Whether attempting a qualitative or quantitative study, scientific research depends on the study design, identifying the target population, establishing the appropriate methodology, choosing data collection methods and analysis procedures that ensure the validity of the study and reliability of results. Flawed research methodologies result in measu...

European Academic Integrity Week 2021 https://academicintegrity.eu/webinar/

All levels of educational institutions must safeguard their academic standards through attention to quality assurance, ideally through a combination of internal quality monitoring and external auditing. In this chapter, I argue that academic integrity should be recognised as an essential component of an institutional quality strategy and present so...

Les politiques nationales ou institutionnelles mal conçues, telles que la fixation de quotas de publication pour les candidats au doctorat, les postes de professeurs ou les nominations universitaires permanentes, contribuent à la demande de revues peu recommandables et favorisent les pratiques médiocres et corrompues en matière de publication et de...

Increasing emphasis on proactive approaches to academic integrity in institutional strategies and policies can be seen as a response to both the challenges of on-line learning and a search for more effective educational models in promoting fundamental values of academic integrity for higher education institutions globally. Thus, towards the end of...

Very few parts of the world have legislation that prohibits the operation or the promotion of contract cheating services. This means that commercial companies providing such services can formally register and operate in most countries. If a student enters into an agreement with a contract cheating provider, what rights do they have to change their...

Given that universities have transitioned to emergency remote teaching, academic integrity becomes a subject of ongoing inquiry. Students taking an English Preparatory Program (EPP) in universities aim to gain sufficient proficiency in English to continue with their courses in their departments. In an online teaching context, coping with requiremen...

The joy of doing any review is having a legitimate excuse to spend time learning about what other researchers are working on, then to reflect on what is new. This book review with a rich tapestry of current research and thinking about integrity in education and research, is no exception. This publication is the product of a virtual conference that...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Dr. Tracey Bretag, who passed away on October 7, 2020 at the age of 58. Dr. Tracey Bretag co-founded the International Journal for Educational Integrity in 2006, with Helen Marsden (now Helen Titchener), sharing co-editorship with her for several issues before assuming the role of Edit...

This paper discusses research on contract cheating undertaken with students across six countries in South East Europe. The research was conducted as part of the South East European Project on Policies for Academic Integrity (SEEPPAI) and supported by a grant from the Council of Europe. Thirteen focus groups were held in which students discussed the...

A clear understanding of terminology is crucial in any academic field. When it is clear that complex interdisciplinary concepts are interpreted differently depending on the academic field, geographical setting or cultural values, it is time to take action. Given this, the Glossary for Academic Integrity, newly developed by the European Network for...

This book is an outcome of the 4th International Conference Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond organized by Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Mendel University in Brno, and the European Network for Academic Integrity. The conference is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Programme of the European Union. It aims to be a forum for shar...

This report serves as a basis to further common understanding on academic integrity through learning new terms and rediscovering old terms in new contexts. The need for this document derives from the variety of terms that are commonly used, but under different contexts. In this sense, we attempted to arrive at a common meaning. This report could be...

This report serves as a basis to further common understanding on academic integrity through learning new terms and rediscovering old terms in new contexts. The need for this document derives from the variety of terms that are commonly used, but under different contexts. In this sense, we attempted to arrive at a common meaning. This report could b...

This year marks a very important year for the Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond conference: for the first time since its founding in 2013, the conference has left its birthplace of Brno, Czech Republic. As this year’s Conference Chair, I am honoured to welcome our distinguished delegates to Ephesus, Turkey, and I am humbled that we were chosen to...

This paper reports on the South-East European Project on Policies for Academic Integrity (SEEPPAI) research study on academic integrity in higher education, which was conducted in Europe in late 2016. The study was funded by the Council of Europe. The data collection methods and results build upon the success of the Impact of Policies for Plagiaris...

Research was conducted between September 2016 and March 2017 to explore policies and procedures for academic integrity in higher education institutions in six countries in South Eastern Europe, Albania (AL), Bosnia & Herzegovina (BA), Croatia (HR), Montenegro (ME), Serbia (RS) and “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. The research was commis...

This chapter presents evidence about how academic integrity is perceived and managed at tertiary level across the European Union (EU). Despite the moves during recent decades to harmonize EU higher education (HE) through the Bologna Process, governance of HE in different parts of Europe remains diverse and complex. The project Impact of Policies fo...

Exploring policies and systems for assuring academic integrity and deterring plagiarism in different higher education institutions was the subject of a three-year project funded by the European Union (EU). The research for Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher Education Across Europe (IPPHEAE), completed in November 2013, was conducted by tea...

This chapter presents evidence about how academic integrity is perceived and managed at tertiary level across the European Union (EU). Despite the moves during recent decades to harmonize EU higher education (HE) through the Bologna Process, governance of HE in different parts of Europe remains diverse and complex. The project Impact of Policies fo...

A significant amount of research has been undertaken in response to high levels of student plagiarism in higher education institutions (HEI). New models have emerged over the last decade for strategies and systems for detection, penalties and mitigation, based on deeper understanding of the underlying reasons behind student plagiarism. Most researc...

The European project “Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher Education Across Europe“ has identified best practices and gaps related to plagiarism in different European countries. Slovakia is one of interesting ones, where national repository for plagiarism detection was established. However, there are still gaps in terms of policies and overa...

In light of the high number of Nigerian students who gain admission to overseas universities for postgraduate studies, there is an increasing need to understand their background and previous study experiences. There are few studies of the experiences or views of Nigerian postgraduate students about the concept of plagiarism. The occurrence of plagi...

The main question addressed by this research is "How can Activity Led Learning be applied to postgraduate taught (PGT) programmes?" Different activity-based learning approaches have been successfully implemented for undergraduate engineering and computing programmes in many places across the world, with positive impact on student outcomes. Anecdota...

Extensive research throughout the UK and elsewhere in the world has revealed that higher education students from certain black and minority ethnic (BME) communities are less likely to graduate, and those who do graduate achieve lower grades than other students entering university with equivalent qualifications. There are, however, other categories...

Many UK universities employ their enrolled students on a part-time basis as student ambassadors and in teaching support roles, for example as student proctors (Hampton and Potter 2009). However it is common elsewhere, for example in the United States of America, for universities and colleges to employ students in a much wider range of support roles...

This paper presents a model for local collaborative working to support school teachers and their pupils in computer science. In the city of Coventry in the UK a network of representatives from various local government organizations, universities, professional bodies and schools has been working together for mutual advantage to organize and support...