Academic integrity is a set of ethical principles and standards that must be upheld by all participants in the educational and research process, including students, academic staff, researchers and university administration.
Academic integrity is not merely a formal requirement; it is the foundation of quality education and research.
Avoiding deception, falsification and manipulation.
Ensuring equal opportunities and fair treatment for all participants in the educational process.
Establishing clear and understandable assessment criteria and ensuring access to information about academic integrity policies.
Taking responsibility for one's own actions and their consequences.
Fostering an open and supportive environment for learning and research.
Respecting copyright and ensuring proper acknowledgement and citation of sources.
Using another person's work, ideas or text without proper acknowledgement or citation.
Inventing or falsifying data in academic or research work.
Manipulating data or altering research results.
Using unauthorised materials or assistance during tests and examinations.
Reusing one's own previously submitted or published work without proper acknowledgement.
Bribery, extortion or offering or accepting improper benefits.
Writing academic papers or completing assignments on behalf of others.
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Article 16. Higher Education Quality Assurance System
Ensuring an effective system for preventing and detecting academic plagiarism in the research papers of higher education institution employees and higher education students.
HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Article 32. Principles of Operation, Key Rights and Responsibilities of Higher Education Institutions
Higher education institutions are obliged to:
Take measures, including the implementation of appropriate advanced technologies, to prevent and detect academic plagiarism in the research papers of researchers, academic and teaching staff, other employees and higher education students, and to hold those responsible for such violations accountable through disciplinary procedures.
RESEARCH, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL, AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Article 69. Intellectual Property Rights and Their Protection
Higher education institutions shall take measures to prevent academic plagiarism, defined as the publication (in whole or in part) of research findings obtained by other persons as one's own research results and/or the reproduction of published texts by other authors without appropriate acknowledgement and citation.