Ana-Maria-Bianca Comanoiu, Muhammad Umar Farooq( York St John University)
ABSTRACT
The following research paper looks at the issue of academic integrity in higher education institutions while noting the significance of the concept for growth and development. It looks at acts of academic fraud and cheating like copying, Examination misconduct, and falsifying information, and the impact they have on the students’ future. Therefore, there is a need for institutions to come up with specific polices that deal with ethical conduct of individuals as well as foster the formation of necessary academic skills that can enable people to uphold integrity. Moreover, the paper includes evaluation of own learning derived from certain specific events, supplemented with theoretical examples such as Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle and Kolb’s Learning Cycle to explain how these theories work in the actual educational process. The investigation showed that maintaining the culture of integrity inculcates the learners’ moral and intellectual development as well as equips them for the ethical demands that they are likely to encounter in real life.