Role of Research Ethics and Academic Integrity in Higher Education

The Research and academic endeavour must cater to ethical practices. Academic ethics is the ethical behaviour and moral principles followed by academician. Academic honesty, integrity and research ethics are the underlying tenets for conducting qualitative research. The originality of the work conducted by researcher has to be established to justify one's creative content in research reports. The students at graduate and post graduate level must be exposed to topics like ethical issues, conduct of research, academic integrity, Academic/ Research misconduct, use of citation styles, use of reference management tools, manipulation of data, fabrication and falsification of data and understanding plagiarism. The higher education institutions should be zero tolerant to academic misconduct.