04 ноября 2018
Day: November 4, 2018
Academic Dishonesty in Russia Increasingly Condemned but Still Widespread
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Academic Dishonesty in Russia Increasingly Condemned but Still Widespread
Paul Goble
Staunton, November 1 – One of the most dangerous threats to the intellectual future of Russia has been widespread tolerance of plagiarism and other former of academic dishonesty in even the best universities of that country. If people are certified without having the knowledge and skills that requires, they will undermine far more than just their own careers.
Now, there is some evidence that Russian higher education has begun to turn the corner. A joint study by the Higher School of Economics and the Levada Center has found that “higher educational institutions are ever less tolerance to academic fraud and are monitoring it more carefully” (vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2018/11/02/785516-vshe-akademicheskogo-moshennichestva). Read more