Harvard University will introduce a code of ethics which requires honesty students pledge to not cheat in learning activities.
This is the first time the prestigious university in the United States is asking students to make a public commitment to refrain from plagiarism or cheating on assignments or exams.
In 2012, Harvard's largest cheating scandal ever faced in the final exam, and the number of students involved Click issued.
Known as the "code of honor", this rule is not really new and has been done in several U.S. universities to minimize cheating action.
'Confirmation of integrity'
Harvard had not made this code as a requirement, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided to introduce and create such a council to oversee.
This code will load that cheating, plagiarism, and academic dishonesty, or errors represent ideas or language that is owned by the lan would be a violation of community standards.
Filing a new code of conduct means students at Harvard after 2015 had to be approved "affirmation of integrity".
But how this promise is pronounced and how often the student will be required to read it still to be decided later.
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Harvard, as well as a number of other universities in the world, is facing the challenge to prevent students copying information from the internet and how a material can be cited with legal.
Harvard University, which is known as one of the best educational institutions in the world was rocked by cheating scandal.
'''' More than half of the 125 students were investigated in this scandal is reported to have issued from the campus, said a Harvard dean in the e-mail sent to all students.
An investigation began when a teacher found an identical answer sheets of examinations done in the home for graduate students majoring in politics.
The investigation later expanded to nearly half of the 279 majors, according to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
The BBC reported no complaints related subjects exam policy that Congress considered introduction is unclear, and the handling of campus protests in the investigation of this case.
Introspection into the
In an e-mail, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Arts Michael Smith said the case has now been resolved.
"Somewhat more than half'' of the case ended with a request to resign, he said.
Around the other half being disciplined by probation and the rest acquitted.
A number of students were caught up in the cheating scandal is a member of the Harvard sports teams.
Two captain of the basketball team together has been excluded from the team, while earlier in the campus newspaper reports said members of the football team, baseball and ice hockey may also be involved.
Dean added that an internal committee put forward the recommendation to promote honesty in this leading educational institutions.
"Now is the time for introspection and into the action,'' said Smith.'' We are responsible for creating a community in which our students learn and we all grow as a scholar.''
Harvard scandal probe mass pencontekan
Dozens of Harvard University students under investigation for allegedly cheating in the exam.
A total of 125 students of various mutual suspicion S1 answer or plagiarism.
Allegations regarding pencontekan organized practices are also found in half of test pieces in the class of 250 students.
If proven, this is the biggest scandal that hit universities 'Ivy League' most elite in the United States.
Suspicions first arose when an assistant professor realized there was something odd about the exam sheet, including the exact same paragraph in the student response, as reported by the Associated Press.
The university has not mention where the subject or class action that alleged the improper conduct.
A number of students waiting sanctions ranging from a warning proved to cheat the first level of the lectures to be suspended for one year.
"These allegations, if proven, represent the disgraceful behavior of a belief that became the intellectual foundation at Harvard," said Harvard's Drew Faust rector.
Jay Harries, dean of education S1, stressed there is no evidence that the mass pencontekan happened at Harvard.
"The fact is before us is that we have a problem with this class," Harris told the AP.
"Seeing the students and the hard work they do, I will hate to say that this is a picture of Harvard students."BBC
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