Higher education: Call for a European integrity standard

Higher education: Call for a European integrity standard - Alina Mungiu-Pippidi & Ligia Deca 7th Natur 491,192 (08 November 2012)

The global market for diplomas and academic rankings has had the unintended consequence of stimulating misconduct, from data manipulation and plagiarism, to sheer fraud. If incentives for integrity prove too hard to create, then at least some of the reasons for cheating must be obliterated through an acknowledgement of the problem in Europe-wide policy initiatives.