Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 189–194.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-189-194

Yavir V. А. , Markishev D. О.
Academic Integrity: legislative regulation attempts in the context of Ukraine’s European integration

The article analyzes one of the legislative attempts to ensure academic integrity at the level of national legislation as a manifestation of legal overregulation, which is generally characteristic of Ukraine. The educational policy and transformation of Ukraine’s educational legislation are significantly influenced by the country’s European integration, which directly affects the education sector, and is also taking place in the context of war. One of the goals of the education and science reform at the current stage of state-building is the integration of Ukraine’s higher education and science into the EU educational and research space. However, the fact that the state is the main driver of reforms and the initiator of legislative changes in the field of education creates a danger of replicating authoritarian culture and attacking academic freedoms and university autonomies, which is the basis of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). An example of how the state has attempted to curtail these freedoms is the attempt to regulate the fight against academic misconduct at the legislative level. Undoubtedly, the culture of academic integrity improves the quality of education and science, but its formation belongs to the sphere of autonomy and policy of educational institutions, not the state. The Draft Law of Ukraine “On Academic Integrity” No. 10392 of 08.01. 2024 does not regulate relations on ensuring academic integrity; does not meet the goals of Ukraine’s European integration, in particular the achievement and observance of European standards in education (European Higher Education Area), according to which ensuring academic integrity belongs to the sphere of academic freedom of educational institutions, and is not regulated by law; restricts the university autonomy provided for by the Bologna Declaration and the Laws of Ukraine “On Higher Education” and “On Complete General Secondary Education”; contradicts the Constitution of Ukraine. The submitted draft law could be formalized in the form of a policy document - a Concept / program / strategy / white paper / roadmap for the formation of a culture of academic integrity in Ukraine.

Key words: academic integrity, academic freedom, university autonomy, constitutional right to education, discrimination, European integration.

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Vera Anatoliivna Yavir,
Leading Researcher
of the Department of Constitutional Law and Local Self-Government
of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Doctor of Political Sciences
ORCID: 0000-0002-1854-5012
Denys Olegovich Markishev,
Postgraduate Student, Department of Interdisciplinary and
Comparative Legal Studies
ORCID: 0000-0002-3328-1238