Honesty And Integrity In The KOE, IIUM

The universities and education face great challenges, most of them indirectly or directly related to science. Academic honesty and integrity are fundamental values in a community of scholars. The student shares with the faculty the responsibility for maintaining the integrity of scholarship, grades, and professional standards, therefore students at university develop habits that help them to survive. It is necessary for scholars to think and work as a student, and resume the methods developed during undergraduate days. Scholars at the KOE, IIUM must satisfactory engage in learning with their students and in various forms of community service and industry liaison, in addition to attend several meetings per semesters. Those pressures can attempt people to take short-cut that do not meet KOE community standards for honesty and integrity. At the KOE incidents of student cheating are very low but the cases start to increase. This paper tries to highlight the reason behind why honesty and integrity among scholars break down and why cases of cheating among students increased as well.ABSTRAK - Pihak universiti dan pendidik menghadapi cabaran yang hebat, kebanyakannya secara langsung atau secara tidak langsung berkaitan dengan sains. Ketulusan akademik dan kewibawaan merupakan nilai-nilai asas dalam komuniti cendekiawan. Para sizwazah berkongsi dengan pihak fakulti tanggungjawab dalam memelihara kewibawaan biayaan, gred, dan standard profesional. Dengan ini, siswazah universiti dapat membentuk amalan yang membantu mereka cemerlang. Ia adalah penting bagi para cendekiawan untuk memikir dan bekerja sama dengan pelajar, dan meneruskan kaedah yang dikembangkan semasa zaman prasiswazah. Para intelektual di KOE, IIUM harus terlibat dalam pengajaran dengan pelajar-pelajar mereka dalam pelbagai bentuk khidmat masyarakat serta kerjasama dengan industri, selain daripada menghadiri mesyuarat setiap semester. Tekanan-tekanan sebegini boleh mendorong agar tidak mengambil jalan mudah yang tidak memenuhi standard komuniti di KOE dari segi keikhlasan dan kewibawaan. Di KOE, insiden pelajar menipu adalah rendah tetapi hal ini makin meningkat. Kertas ini cuba mengetengahkan sebab kenapa ketulusan dan keutuhan di kalangan siswazah makin runtuh dan kenapa kes-kes penipuan di kalangan pelajar semakin meningkat.Keywords- Integrity, Honesty, IIUM, KOE