Academic and Professional Integrity

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL INIGRITY
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Academic integrity is a kind of ethical code for academics. It means maintaining with the standards of
academics and avoiding the things such as cheating and plagiarism. Honesty is part of this thing as it is
important to do things in an honest and ethical manner. In the same way, professional integrity is the
code of ethics that a person should adopt In order to use the knowledge, skills and values in the
profession they choose to do. (Edgar and Pattison, 2011).
A student with integrity is someone who is honesty. In a student the values and morals sets a character
of a student and maintains academic integrity of a student at a university.
Students who work with more integrity tend to work hard in order to earn their degrees in an honest
and fair manner as they put all of their hard work in completing the assignments. When a student cheats
intentionally in the university, they actually compromise in their degree and the morals of an individual
and value of the degree vanishes. Apart from the university, this thing also goes ahead in the work
environment, which highly affects the work goals as well (Cribb, 2011).
A lot of surveys and studies show that the students or people who focus more on the dishonest and
unethical practices in schools, college or universities are more likely to become cheat, frauds and can
steal at their workplace as well. The academic integrity is important and has high level of importance for
everyone with the community of university as a fair conduct can help in maintaining the academic
practices and community. For the students as well there are many benefits as this thing helps in
ensuring fairness in the procedure the way credits are earned and awarded to the students (Macfarlane,
Zhang and Pun, 2014).
In the academic and professional integrity all the dishonesty related to academic are considered to be
seriously unethical and a violation to the code of conduct (Noelliste, 2013). All of this thing are managed
or handled by the academic integrity committee. Many behaviors are strictly not allowed in academic
integrity, which is copying, from some other student, allowing the other to copy, selling copy of
assignments, buying, and selling work without permission. Apart from this even stealing, destroying and
other academic work is strictly prohibited (Mastin, Peszka and Lilly, 2009).
Maintaining honesty and Integrity in a workplace is important, as it is important to maintain and have a
code of conduct. Things like quality of having integrity and honesty can lead to gaining trust, which also