Academic Integrity: The Case of Vietnam

Abstract

The paper analyzes theoretical and practical issues and measures to ensuring academic
integrity in Vietnam.As revealed by the author, like many countries in the world, Vietnam is
facing problems of academic dishonesty, which manifests in plagiarism, cheating and fabrication
in conducting scientific research. Common causes of academic dishonesty include the
development of Internet, the explosion of higher education, the commercialization of academic
publishing institutions, the bladder attitude towards the negative manifestations of academic life.
The author argued that, to ensure academic integrity in Vietnam, it is necessary to take measures
to overcome those common causes, as well as some other specific causes, including
shortcomings in codification, dissemination and implementation of academic integrity principles
and standards in the academic community