{"id":2571,"date":"2019-07-15T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2019-07-18T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:39:35","slug":"academic-uproar-integrity-at-stake-dont-exaggerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/academic-uproar-integrity-at-stake-dont-exaggerate\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic uproar: Integrity at stake?  Don&#8217;t exaggerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I know that there would be <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/academic-integrity-what-is-it\/\">bad apples<\/a> in any organisation.\u00a0 But you cannot generalise that the whole barrel would be damaged too.\u00a0 It is true that bad apples could give bad names but there are good apples that you can choose and value.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/opinion\/2019\/07\/14\/integrity-very-much-alive-in-malaysian-universities\/\"> Integrity<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/integrity-in-the-workplace\/\">at stake<\/a>?\u00a0 Well, it will always be no matter what.\u00a0 There is no guarantee that life will be smooth sailing and perfect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I do admit that sometimes some people might overgeneralise the whole thing.\u00a0 \u00a0Based on my own experience, there are seniors who uphold their beliefs on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/etika-akademik\/\">integrity<\/a> and accountability and show good examples to emulate as role models (uhuk uhuk even though they might not be the &#8220;popular&#8221; ones).\u00a0 All in all, things are still under control.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">What matters now is we cannot be too complacent when we see something is not right.\u00a0 This culture needs to be changed.\u00a0 If not, well, just wait and see the consequences in which if that is the case, things would be difficult to be rectified.\u00a0 We are not going to put ourselves in a position that would cost us not only time but also resources.\u00a0 \u00a0Like a malignant cancer, even though it is small, we need to remove it ASAP.\u00a0 If not, it would become metastasis and by that time, only death is the solution.\u00a0 \u00a0Don&#8217;t let academic integrity to die out starting from small ignored incidences of malignant academic malpractice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there would be bad apples in any organisation.\u00a0 But you cannot generalise that the whole barrel would be damaged too.\u00a0 It is true that bad apples could give bad names but there are good apples that you can choose and value.\u00a0 Integrity is at stake?\u00a0 Well, it will always be no matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/academic-uproar-integrity-at-stake-dont-exaggerate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic uproar: Integrity at stake?  Don&#8217;t exaggerate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}