Academic Honesty And Integrity

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Academic honesty and integrity is an essential standard that institutions strive to maintain
across the world. Without adhering to the standards of academic integrity and honesty, it is not
possible to uphold the quality of education in an institution, neither fair treatment to students will
be provided. Moreover, with the severe lack in the moral behaviour and practices in such an
early stage of life, the students cannot turn out to be ethical and responsible citizens, thus opine a
number of scholars and educators.
To restrict and control such misconducts, all the academic institutions have a definite set
of code of conducts and penalty policy. However, all these regulations often fall short to restrict
students from adopt the unfair means. Experts of education and teaching constantly are looking
for the root causes of this practice. Canada is no exception to such misconducts. However, recent
trends and findings and trends in Canada indicate that the surge in the population of international
students have escalated the situation even more. To this end, it could be conceived that the
different comprehension of morality, communication gap as well as misunderstanding of ethical
and cultural understanding lead them to cheat. And this practice in turn fuel their peers to adopt
unfair means. Hence, this paper argues that the lack of cultural and ethical understanding in their
parts along with the societal and cultural pressure on students induce academic dishonesty and
misconducts.
In the academic discipline, academic dishonesty mostly involve plagiarism, cheating and
using resources from prohibited sources. However, a study conducted by Rivers (2019) in St.
Claire College and Fanshawe College shows that the practice of plagiarism has increased
following the surge in international institutions. Although the authorities in both the colleges
accepted the fact that plagiarism or cheating is not limited among foreign students, the trend
nonetheless spiked after the surge. The reason underlying this practice, remark the relevant