Plagiarism In Australia

INTRODUCTION

Plagiarism is perceived to be a growing problem and universities are being required to devote increasing time and resources (Gullifer, 2010). Cheating, plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct are a significant issue in higher education (Wilkinson, 2009). Student plagiarism subverts the system of course evaluation, debases qualifications and offends against academic integrity (Walker, 2006). Some students cheat by buying solutions to assignments and paying other people to sit their exams (Zobel, 2001).

In China, academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, is a chronic problem. The paper reports the results of a project undertaken at a public funded university in Melbourne, Australia, in partnership with colleagues from a public funded university in Beijing, China, to combat this and other problems associated with academic literacy (Henderson& Whitelaw, 2013).

al., (2016), student plagiarism is a growing problem within Australian universities and abroad. Potentially exacerbating this situation, research indicates that students' attitudes toward plagiarism are typically more permissive and lenient than the policies of their tertiary institutions. There has been suggestion that this is especially so in Asian countries relative to Western countries; however, very little research has sought to empirically validate this suggestion.Moreover, existing research in this area has typically compared international and domestic students studying in Western countries. As yet, no studies have directly compared Chinese and Australian university students' attitudes toward plagiarism, as they exist within their native