Procrastination: An Unethical Practice in Higher Education

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Procrastination: An Unethical Practice in Higher Education

Archana Pal, Dr. Arpana Godbole

Vol 8 , Issue 1 , July 2023 | Pages: 1-06

Published Online: July, 2023

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1. Archana Pal, Research Scholar, Department of Education, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India
2. Dr. Arpana Godbole, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India

Higher Education plays a significant role in everyone’s life as it belongs to the stage of career advancement and building. Revamping the Higher education system is a need of the hour. Following unethical practices in higher education by academicians is a matter of global issue and concern. The term ‘Unethical Practices’ refers to Individual’s behavior who are getting indulged in wrong practices. Unethical Practices in Higher Education are practiced by all academicians frequently without knowing the consequences and offenses. Among all the stakeholders, students usually get indulged in such activities due to a lack of awareness. As they have casual behavior toward their studies and act like they did nothing wrong by procrastinating their tasks. Studies show that students are committing these unethical practices while preparing their assignments, and submitting their final term project work, dissertation work, and doctoral thesis work. Despite getting so many Ph.D. holders over the years, the condition of research in India is still unsatisfactory.  The conditions of higher education are not satisfactory in India, none of the University able to come under the top hundred ranking in NIRF. That compels the higher education bodies to put quality check mandates. In line to maintain standards, UGC issued regulations on the “Quality of Ph.D. theses in Indian Universities” for the quality of the theses submitted by the researchers and dissertations by postgraduate students. For ensuring the prevention of unethical practices UGC has to set up a Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE) and issued a care reference list to prohibit predatory and dubious journals. There is a code of conduct for all academicians to maintain the quality and standards in higher education that should be taken concern. Procrastination is one of the reasons for declining the quality of higher education. This paper will bring the academicians’ attention to all the major issues of higher education by procrastinating and to stop this unethical practice. This paper will orient the readers about the guidelines to maintain their quality of higher education so that they can get acquired results in the given period and better opportunities for a quality life.

Keywords

Procrastination, Academic Procrastination, Unethical Practice, Higher Education, Quality Concerns
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Pal, & Godbole. (2023). Procrastination: An Unethical Practice in Higher Education. IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 8(1), 1–6.