Юридичне регулювання академічної доброчесності в Україні: еволюція і перспективи

The article clarifies the historical aspects and current features of the legal regulation of academic integrity in general and in Ukraine in particular; analyzes the state of scientific research on academic integrity; identifies problems and prospects for improving the legal regulation of academic integrity in Ukraine. It is concluded that today academic integrity as a requirement for scientific and scientific-pedagogical activity, as well as educational activity in general, is increasingly heard in the public space. The prerequisite for this is that, despite the general idea of it and individual requirements that have existed for quite a long time, academic integrity as a certain systemic concept and subject of legal regulation has only recently begun to be embodied in legal regulation and studied by scientists. It also concerns institutions that should be engaged in monitoring compliance with the requirements of academic integrity. Their creation and activity, as well as the problems that arise in connection with this in practice, are also relatively new phenomena. It is stated that academic integrity is a principle that is quite systematically rooted in educational law, which is of great importance for education. Academic integrity is actively researched both in foreign and domestic science, but Ukrainian researchers, in our opinion, still pay insufficient attention to it. First of all, it is about legal regulation. It is worth welcoming the introduction of a legal definition, forms of violation, and sanctions for relevant violators of academic integrity since 2017. In addition, intra-university regulatory requirements for academic integrity, embodied in numerous codes, regulations, etc., as well as in the activities of academic integrity commissions, are quite important. At the same time, it is worth noting that appropriate attention began to be paid to academic integrity quite late. Today, there are obviously numerous disputes regarding violations of academic integrity, but they often concern the period before 2017, when the relevant issues were not given sufficient attention. In addition, questions arise regarding the validity of the relevant mechanisms introduced from 2017 to the previous period. These issues should be considered as much as possible regarding the new draft law on academic integrity, which was already adopted in the first reading by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on June 6, 2024. Despite the numerous comments expressed in the expert community, we hope that it will be finalized and finally adopted. It is worth welcoming the systematic approach that was implemented in the relevant draft law, but without eliminating the shortcomings, its final adoption is impossible.