Examining Plagiarism in UK Universities: Solutions for Ethical Management

Running head: ETHICAL MANAGEMENT
Ethical Management
Name of the Student
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Table of Content
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
2 Plagiarism Cases witnessed across UK Universities..............................................................4
Discussion and Conclusion........................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Topic- Evaluate the extent of plagiarism in UK universities and discuss the possible
solutions to eradicate this unethical behaviour
Introduction
This research report presents an evaluation of the extent of plagiarism in students’
papers in UK universities. Plagiarism is a type of cheating and academic offence in which
students hires the help of a third party agency to write assignment for them for specified
momentary value and after submitting the paper claims to prove that as their own. In
addition, providers of such counterfeited work claims that papers they produce are 100% free
from plagiarism but decidedly, it is a misleading claim. Purpose of this report is to evaluate
the degree of plagiarism in UK universities and find suitable solutions to prevent such
counterfeited work. There are certain terms that are used to explain particular types of
plagiarism with the inclusion of contract cheating, paid plagiarism, turn in fraud and
academic fraud.
It has been identified that all universities tend to have policies on this problem and to
this stop relentless menace, universities have started using plagiarism detection software.
However, the issue of plagiarism is under the constant discussion. Nevertheless, this is a case
of being observed to do something instead of confronting the issue. It is certain that
plagiarism is not a technical issue but it is rather a shame on academic culture. It is
particularly identified that every now and then, there is an outburst of concern regarding the
occurrence of plagiarism in higher education in UK. Teh and Paull (2013, p.285) mentioned
that recent Freedom of Information request which looked across UK providers discovered
that academic references were found to be high as 50,000 student cases over three
consecutive years. The issue is taking its toll on students, while some universities are trying
to become more vigilant towards students’ habit of counterfeiting the work. This report