Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This report discusses the importance of academic integrity in higher education, including its role in protecting institution reputation, offering value to degrees, and promoting peace of mind. It also reflects on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing a game for Project 2, and the skills learned in the process.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
Contents
Introduction p
Section 1 p-p
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
p
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
p
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct p
Section 2 p-p
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game
for Project 2 p
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in
producing your game p
Conclusion p

References p

Introduction
Academic integrity refers to those expectation under which the teachers, students and other
stakeholders in the institution act with honesty, trust, fairness and respect. It is one of the most
important aspect which helps in the development and success of the institution. Academic
integrity can be developed only if all the stakeholders perform their functions in the organization
with honesty. There are many factors which negatively impact on academic integrity such as
plagiarism, cheating, raging and many more (Brothers, 2020). It is the duty of the management of
institution that I analyses these factors from the organization and try to minimize them so that the
integrity of the institution cannot be defamed. This report provides brief discussion related to the
different aspect of the academic integrity.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the behavior of different stakeholders of the academic
institution towards their institute. It is very essential for these stakeholder that they knew their
responsibilities and fulfill with accuracy and honesty. The management of the institution has
responsible for the development of academic integrity, its their duty to motivate different
stakeholder to act in the organization. Strict rules and regulations so that the students and
teachers does not conduct any act which is against the integrity of the institution. There are
many advantages are present if the management of the institution has promotes the concept in
the organization. The results of the students becomes effective, institution can get
considerable growth and respect of organization becomes increases. The life of the students
becomes changed because many misconducts are removed from their life such as plagiarism
and cheating in the exams. Their academic and professional career starts shining if these
habits are developed in their personality (Brunelle and Hott, 2020). The development of
academic integrity also positively impacts on the life of teachers. There are many
misconducts are present which can be done by the teachers such as paper leak and biased
towards the students. If these habits are improved by the teachers then they have many more
effective opportunities in their life which shine their career.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity refers to those concept which enables, teachers, students and
management of the academic institution to act in the organization with respect, responsibility,

trust and fairness. All these related parties which are mentioned above are the important
stakeholders of any academic institution which has great role in the development and growth
of the institution. If these parties operates their functions properly then the growth and
development of the institution becomes possible. The management of the institution also
plays an important role in this because the responsibility of the management and development
of integrity in the institution lies on this management.
Academic integrity also plays an important role in the growth and development of
many higher education institutes such as colleges and universities. It is seen in many colleges
that the concept of plagiarism becomes common and most of the students makes their
projects by simply copy from the work of other. The biggest disadvantage of this habit is that
the development of their knowledge and skills faces difficulties and also injustice for those
those students which does their work without any plagiarism. Academic integrity has great
importance in the higher education and the brief discussion related to the same are given
below:
Protect institution reputation
The concept of academic integrity states that all the parties of the college and
universities has act in the organization with respect and honesty. Many students and teachers
are present in the higher education which misconducts in the institution such as plagiarism,
paper leak and many more (Burke, 2021). All these misconducts has negatively impacts on
the reputation of the college and their growth are not possible. The concept of academic
integrity states strict rules and regulations in relation to this so that the related parties
becomes fearful to misconduct in the organization and the reputation of the institutes
becomes safe and protected.
Value to their degree
The professional career of the student are depend upon their academic degrees and
skills which they developed in the college and Universities. Academic integrity developed
many skills in the personality of student such as honesty in the work and also a responsible
person which has performed all their function with disciplined. Most of the company hires
those students for their organization which are having degree of those colleges whose
integrity are more and attractive. All these skills which was developed in their personality
due to the promotion of academic integrity helps them to achieve considerable growth in their
organization.
Offer peace of mind

It is very important for the mental growth of the person that their mind are free from
different negative comments and thoughts. The thoughts and comments came from the
conduct of the student (Eaton and Christensen Hughes, 2020). If the students done any
misconduct them their mind has a lots of negative comments and they never feels positive.
The concept of academic integrity restricts the usage of negative conducts in the institution so
their the peace can be developed in their mind.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct is related to those concept under which the related stakeholders
of the academic institution has conduct negative activity in the organization or those activity
which are not favorable for the development and growth of the organization. There are many
academic misconduct are present which are performed by the teachers and students such as
plagiarism, ragging, paper leak, disrespect of teachers and many more. These misconducts are
very dangerous for skill development of the student and also the negative for the career of the
teachers. The academic misconduct has many disadvantages and the brief discussion related
to the same are given below:
Creates many problems for the teachers
There are many teachers and professors are present in the college and schools which
has done many misconducts in the institution such as paper leak, biased towards the students
and misuse their post in the organization. On of the greatest negative effect of this behavior
are lies on the career of the students because the process of their skills development remains
the incomplete. It also negatively impacts on the career and job of the teachers because if the
teacher catches by the management of the institution then they will fire from their job and has
to face many difficulties to find new job for them.
Losses reputation
Reputation of the college and university plays an important role in success and
development of the college. If the teachers and students of the university has doing
misconduct of plagiarism, false behavior and many more so the reputation of the college
were loose (Samko, 2019)(Onete, 2021). The respect of the students and teachers are also
linked to these misconducts. If these misconducts has performed by the student or any teacher
they also faces many difficulties in their life and also disrespect in the organization as well as
out of the organization.
Discourage students

Academic institution refers to those place which performed the function of providing
knowledge and development of life style to the students. Under this place, all the students
learned how to live a life with integrity and respect so that they considerable growth in their
life and career. The concept of misconduct has enable the student to conduct different
negative activity in their academic career (Vătăman, 2019). These misconduct will become
their habit which is used by them in their professional career. They have to face strict
criticism and failures in their life due to the habit of misconduct developed in their academic
life.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game
for Project 2
It is very important for the development and promotion of academic integrity in the colleges
and school because the concept of plagiarism becomes common in many schools and
colleges. The number of cases in plagiarism increases which negatively impacts on the
academic integrity. An advanced game is developed by me which helps to improves the habit
of plagiarism from the students. The name of the game is Plagomaster under which the
teachers provides specific topic to the student to write an essay. These essay were checked
electrically so that effective plagiarism report can be developed. The students which scores
highest are to be given special rewards. There are many steps are taken by me to encountered
this game and the brief discussion related to the same are given below:
Development of strategy
It is one one of the most important and initial stage of any project or task. The
development of this game requires effective team having member of creative thinking. My
team has these abilities, all the member start gathering information related to the topic and
develop effective strategy in relation to this.
Focus on project goals and objectives
It is important for the success of this game that the main focus of the team members are lies
on the goals and objectives of the game. The main objective of this game is to improve of the
plagiarism habit of the students which ruined their career.
Difficulties encountered during the project

 Team management :- It is very important for the success of this game that
management of team can be effective. I choose democratic style of leadership to
manage my team. Under this style all the member of the team has right to express
their opinions and suggestions.
 Coordination :- It is essential for me to develop coordination between all the
members of the team so that the useful information can be transferred effectively. I
provide considerable independence to member so that they interact with each other.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in
producing your game
There are many skills I have learned while doing this project and these skills has helped me
very much to develop this game. The brief discussion related to these skills are given below:
 Time management skills :- It is related to those skills which helps me to become
punctual and also makes me to able to develop effective time table. These skills
helped me to manage the time in different aspect of my life such as personal and
academic.
 Creative thinking skills :- It is essential for us to develop effective team for the
completion of this project and also the development of this game. The discussion
between the team member enables different suggestions and creative ideas which
makes my thinking more creative and analytical.
Conclusion
It is concluded from this report that Academic integrity is the most important aspect which
should be present in the higher education (Батечко and Михайліченко, 2019). It
concludes that Time management skills Creative thinking skills are the skills which are
developed while doing this project and also concludes the counter of different problems such
as Team management and Coordination.This project also concludes various disadvantages of
academic integrity which can impact on growth and development of a person. This report
also concludes that in the development of a personality

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