Academic Integrity and Importance in Higher Education

This report discusses academic integrity and its importance in higher education. It covers the pillars of academic integrity, the consequences of academic misconduct, and the skills learned while producing a game for Project 2. The report emphasizes the need for awareness about academic integrity and the usefulness of conducting programs to spread awareness. The report is relevant to students pursuing BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation and taking the course BMP3003 Further Academic Skills.

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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 is a moral code of conduct which include ethical policy of the
academic that allows teachers and scholars and teachers a freedom to for generating original
and new ideas, knowledge and creative works and respect as well as comprehend others work
(Bohata and et. al., 2022). Universities should react to the academic misconduct in a
transparent, consistent, fair and together in a timely manner. Therefore, this report will be
based on the academic integrity that highlights its value, there will be a discussion on
consequences of the academic misconduct in high education. It will also include a reflection
on the skill which were used during making this game.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
The Academic Integrity described as those expectations which faculty members,
students, researchers and university's members act with honesty, trust, fairness, respect and
together with a responsibility. It is expected by higher educational scholars in UK to maintain
an academic integrity during studies and education. Academic integrity is upholding by
contacting the schools and faculties when students are facing challenges and working with
remedies. During writing an assignment, students should take some extra responsibility when
transferring the information from various authors and they should be honest with their work.
The academic integrity is based on five main pillars which are mentioned below:
 Trust- It is helpful in building a string bond as it ingrained where everyone doing
their best, where policies or rules along with the structure are fair and all the members
fumed fairly.
 Honesty- It demonstrate student's contributions and define their ability in a fair way
(Della Sala, 2022).
 Fairness- In this, every person should have faith that all of them will be judged an
fumed very fairly based on their performance.
 Responsibility- This pillars refers to an understating of the answerability and agency
in work and regular actions.

 Respect- It lets scholars or member's perception and viewpoint to be shared. In this,
graduate show respect by listening others perception, meet deadlines, be on time and
so forth. Beside it, tutors also show respect by listening thoughts, ideas and views of
the graduates, and then give an honest feedback to them.

A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
The academic integrity is important in higher education as it show that how students
are honest with their work in universities. They take responsibilities during making an
assignment without breaking any rules. When students give full value for their university then
it show that how motivated and commitment to in to their work and do not copying their
work from others (Evans, Irizarry and Freeman, 2022). If they are observed as copying from
other, then in this case they will be kicked out of their university that would have adverse
impact on their future career. Students who breaks the rules that can face as not able to get in
other university within UK. For instance, it is shown in past cases that how student has done
broken university's rules to get a degree, it shows that many students are willing to copy from
the others without giving a credit for their hard work. Universities should takes strict action in
order to protected the student who put many hours of their handwork to accomplish their
degree. Importance of academic integrity in relation to students, university are discussed
below:
 For students- In context of students, the academic integrity provide an opportunity
for success through performing a task and academic work with a honest behavior. It
is significant for students to neglect work bad outcomes like not succeeding in task or
being asked to leave the institution. As students are investing their efforts and time int
o their high education, so it may become a stepping stone to get success in their
chosen domain or career.
 For universities- It is essential for universities to be authentic and consistent in its
standards for an assessment and course so that other people can have assurance in
taking degree from their colleges (Flynn, Collins and Malone, 2022). Due to this, it
become significant for universities to be concerned towards academic misconduct or
dishonest seriously. Furthermore, when anyone passed out form their college, then
university will feel proud for keeping a high standard.
 Generate new ideas- For graduates, it is important to identify sources correctly
during their academic assignments as it enable the faculty to mark student's work and
see where ideas are generated (Hamilton and et. al., 2022). It determine the way that
how ideas are assembled . It also aid in giving credit to original authors and writers
whose knowledge or ideas have been uses in work and assignment.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct

The academic misconduct takes place when a personal taking full advantages for him
self that means that they are not giving full responsibility for the other student's hard work
and also not giving furl credit which is called academic misconduct that lead to breaking laws
for the plagiarism from the other students within university which is not being honest
(Lakshminarayanan and Rao, 2022). Plagiarism, cheating, deceit, collusion are some
example of the academic misconduct. There are various consequences of academic conduct
which are mentioned below:
 Social consequences- Moral consequences of dishonest and cheating behavior,
covering “habit forming” nature of cheating diminution of the hard work, integrity
and candor. Habitual cheating nature depict that an individual who cheat in the
academic practices and sens they can rid off with this when may go along for cheating
in personal life, others life and office.
 Loss of the intellectual property- The academic misconduct like plagiarism is a
tantamount of stealing property of other. An original work including idea,writing, art,
music, design and many more developed by some other person is “currency” fro that
individual and when some one else exploit this work without any approval, that
resulting into loss of the intellectual property, likely recognition and income.
 Course Drop or withdrawal- students who have been found involved in any kind of
academic dishonesty in their course may not withdraw or drop from the course (Parui
and et. al., 2022). If a students process a late drop, retroactive late drop, regular drop
or withdrawal for course, then action will be reversed and appropriate symbol and
grade will be recorded on student's transcript.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2
As per my experience, it is identified that producing a games is really a difficult job,
although it was also very exciting as during this time period I got a chance to learn something
new which enhance my knowledge. My tutors give a project to me and other four team
members, in which we had to produce a game trough which we learn about academic
integrity and implication of academic misconduct. So, I had decided to lead my team so that

an effective game can be designed. This game will be payed online on computer system, for
which I need to develop my technical skills as it require knowledge about short key and other
function to make the game easy and interesting. Most difficulty thing in this game is that we
have never played that kind of game earlier more confusing due to the adoption of academic
integrity rulers in to this game. This game had contained certain question based on the
academic integrity which had to answer by participated students (Peixoto, Almeida and
Albuquerque, 2022). All question had contained four option in which, correct answer must be
attended by participated students with the intention to earn points, otherwise the will get
minus points. As per this rule of game, if any student will be found in doing unfair practices,
then hi will be disqualified for the game. Because this game is totally based on the academic
integrity in which main motive of this game is to make understandable the student that why it
is essential for them to maintain academic integrity. There were some challenges and
difficulties faced by me and other team members when designing this game. As I was lacking
about the knowledge of academic integrity, for which I had to done research on this topic so
that main motive of the game can be accomplished. Another issues is that we were enable to
set a coordination among all team members due to which our project was also influenced. To
remove this barriers I had assigned different role to different person in order to bring a clarity
in work. When we were working on the project, then due to miscommunication, that create
many complexities in producing this game. So to bring an effective communication I had
resolve the conflict and covey actual matter regarding the game. Therefore, all these
difficulties were encountered during making this game (Tauginienė, and Gaižauskaitė,
2022).
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
When making this game, then I got a chance to grow at professional and personal
level as due to this, I had developed my different skills which will be very helpful for my
future growth. The skills I have learned during this time period is that I have become more
focused and organized about what is important and what should be my priority. It also
improve my presentation skill due to which now I can present my opinion and work in front
of tutor with a confidence. These developed skill make enable any person to work with an
effectiveness and efficient manner ( Rajamany and et. al., 2022). Certain more developed
skilled are mentioned below:

 Creativity skill- This game design required to build a creativity skill in me so that I
become able to design this game more attractive and matched with the purpose to
make understand able the students about value of the academic integrity.
 Communication skill- As this game is lie a quiz game, for which I had need to
communicate with my team members to share essential message and information.
This skill helped me a lot to delegate role and responsibility to all team members by
knowing about their interest. Through this skill we became able to solve all the issues
during game designing.
 Leadership skill- This skill helped me to grow in leadership practices so that I
become able to lead my team and influence them to work effectively. This skill also
support me to focus on other areas such as motivational skill, problem solving skills
and so on.
Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that with an the academic integrity, a person
work with positive attitude and honest behavior as it avoid bad consequences of the
academic misconduct. Awareness about academic integrity is essential and useful for
personal and professional life. The academic misconduct include fabrication, cheating,
plagiarism, falsification of data and many more. All these things should be considered by
individual when working. To avoid the practices of academic misconduct, many games are
designed that spread awareness for academic integrity. In second section of this report, there
was a reflection which are faced during producing this game. In designing a game many
changes are faced by a person in which they learn that how to deal with these challenges and
become able to remove all the barriers. Therefore, it is mandatory for every educational
institution that they conduct some program where students can learn that why academic
integrity is useful for them in making their career successful efficiently.
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