ACADEMIC INTEGRITY – THE BASIS FOR PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION

Abstract

The article covers issues related to “Academic Integrity” in higher education. Its main problems of introduction into the educational process of both full-time and part-time education in the specialty “Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy” are analyzed. The research was based on the study of materials that the authors got acquainted with during the scientific internship “Academic Integrity”, orga­ni­zed by the Polish-Ukrainian Foundation “Institute of International Academic and Scientific Cooperation” and from open sources of information and personal experience. The article presents the basic principles, rules and criteria in the field of “Academic Integrity”, which, in our opinion, will allow to obtain quality student education, which should be based on higher requirements and standards of higher education. As a result, we will have a young generation with deep knowledge and moral values, clear responsibility for their actions, as well as the emergence of a new public consciousness, rich in new ideas that will make them competitive in the global market of new projects and research. Detailed and thorough acquaintance with the basics of “Academic Integrity” will give the opportunity to fully understand it in the student community, which, in our opinion, will successfully analyze and learn new material, draw conclusions and make suggestions for the introduction of mandatory principles and norms of “Academic Integrity”, as well as the introduction of various sanctions for non-compliance, which will be just the key to quality education. It is their suggestions that will allow us, scientific and pedagogical workers, to understand the problem from the point of view of the student. In addition, it will allow the teacher to build a close relationship with higher education students, constantly focus on the needs of the student, which, in our opinion, will have a positive impact on the overall development of the discipline.