Academic integrity: Challenges and strategies for Asia and the Middle East

Ahmed, Khawlah

doi:10.1080/08989621.2019.1646646

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“…A review of recent studies about research in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa (the regions from which the majority of the university’s students come) shows that the research in these regions is far behind that of the western world (Ahmed, 2020; Lages et al, 2015). This, in turn, has a negative effect on the economic cycle of those regions.…”

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Challenges and Support in Article Publication: Perspectives of Non-Native English Speaking Doctoral Students in a “Publish or No Degree” Context

Shamsi

Osam

2022

Sage Open

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Article publication as a requirement for graduation appears to be the most compelling challenge for doctoral candidates, especially for the non-English speaking ones. In order to contribute to this topic of growing interest, we aimed to investigate the key challenges to doctoral student research publication and develop an understanding of support they needed to ease the publication process. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 19 non-English speaking doctoral students in varied science and social science programs at an international university in north Cyprus. The findings revealed that the participants supported the “publish or no degree” policy as a condition for their graduation despite several challenges it created for them, such as lack of publication experience, weaknesses in the article composition, tough criteria of journals, and inadequate support from the instructors at the course phase. Peer-support community among the doctoral students lacked in the examined context and promoting it might yield positive results.

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Challenges and Support in Article Publication: Perspectives of Non-Native English Speaking Doctoral Students in a “Publish or No Degree” Context

Shamsi

Osam

2022

Sage Open

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“…However crucial the cases of plagiarism are in Malaysia, they have happened not only within the country, but this plagiarism misconduct has also threatened many other countries. On the bright side, most of them have already started to address this peculiar misconduct (Singh, 2015;Mustapha et al, 2017;Ahmed, 2020). Although it is not a simple issue as it involves the professionals, especially among the faculty members (Sonfield, 2014), it is critically essential to impose and enforce the related legal provision to those who have plagiarized in their construction of published academic writings.…”

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A Legal Perspective on Academic Plagiarism of Research Writing in Malaysian Universities

Zain

Rahmat

Zulkarnain

2021

MJSSH

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Plagiarism is acknowledged as dangerous, especially when academicians are accused of being engaged in malpractice in publishing their research papers. The increased amount of online access to research led to academic dishonesty and plagiarism rising in higher learning institutions. It is challenging to balance the academic and public interest demand with the intervention of globalisation in education, which introduces the hegemonic world ranking universities. Plagiarism has resulted in the unoriginality of research outputs which can affect the knowledge in the future. It also resulted in the academicians abusing their honour while writing research papers in whatever discipline of knowledge. This is a severe problem that needs a quick reform to the legal framework. From the qualitative data, the study believes that by having a proper provision relating to plagiarism in the legal framework, especially for the academicians, plagiarism cases in the educational institution may be reduced. The current existing policies and guidelines should be inserted directly into any relevant Act or rules and regulation to be imposed on the parties involved. The government needs to produce a fair and standard provision on plagiarism in dealing with the weaknesses or loopholes in the educational institution policies and regulations for academic integrity to be upheld.

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“…The case of Malaysian academics suggested that, like in many other countries in Asia, academics in Malaysian universities were less influential in helping to shape policies at the institutional level and their academic activities became more regulated and controlled by government policies (Azman et al, 2009). Among new research into the challenges facing Asian academics, Ahmed (2020) focused on examining the issue of academic integrity in Asia and the Middle East and presenting the challenges the academics in the region were confronted with, and suggesting strategies that can be implemented. Further, the existing literature shows that the challenges facing the academic profession not only occur in emerging and underdeveloped countries such as central and eastern European countries and the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, China and India), but they have also expanded to advanced systems like the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (Altbach, 2003b; Altbach et al., 2013; Smolentseva, 2003).…”

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Challenges to the Asian academic profession: Major findings from the international surveys

Huang

2020

Higher Education Quarterly

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It is generally acknowledged that the academic profession plays a decisive role in determining the quality and identity of national higher education systems. Despite massive differences existing in the academic profession many countries in East and South East Asia, formation of the academic profession as part of their higher education systems in the region was modelled on Western patterns in the later part of the 19th century

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Academic integrity: Challenges and strategies for Asia and the Middle East

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

Challenges and Support in Article Publication: Perspectives of Non-Native English Speaking Doctoral Students in a “Publish or No Degree” Context

Challenges and Support in Article Publication: Perspectives of Non-Native English Speaking Doctoral Students in a “Publish or No Degree” Context

A Legal Perspective on Academic Plagiarism of Research Writing in Malaysian Universities

Challenges to the Asian academic profession: Major findings from the international surveys

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