Plagiarism: a serious ethical issue for Indian students

Many graduate students from India are unaware of academic writing, plagiarism, ethical issues and research methodologies. Due to lack of appropriate or experienced teaching instructors in most of the institutions the standards of education and ethics in the education system are under serious threat. Such education system allows many students to practice unethical ways of pursuing an academic degree. Earlier awareness of research methodology and ethical issues were considered necessary only for research scholars doing PhD and was recently extended for post-graduation students as well. Government of India announced plagiarism as an academic fraud and unethical due to which the student or research scholar may attract punishment. In this paper, a study has been attempted to evaluate possible approaches to introduce a methodology in Indian education system whereby students going abroad or working in scientific research are protected from the academic code of conduct or copyright issues. A critical assessment was carried out on various imparting factors of education system. A decent procedure and adoptable ethical ways of teaching and training methodologies are being summarized in this paper.