The quality of education today will form the quality of lives of our nations in the future. Maybe the information contained in this mail will be a little bit interesting for you. It shows the impact of the implementation of centralized (nationwide) repository of theses and dissertations together with centralized (nationwide) anti-plagiarism system at higher education institutions. And there are the links speaking about the process of building a nationwide barrier against the spread of plagiarism at higher education institutions. It is unique and unprecedented solution that bears fruit (more details see below). International research project “Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher Education Across Europe” (IPPHEAE, EU funded, 2010-2013, Project Lead Partner: Coventry University, United Kingdom) carried out a survey in all EU countries. Country reports for 27 EU countries are accessible on the internet site http://ippheae.eu/project-results . In the report “Plagiarism Policies in Slovakia” you can read this ( http://ippheae.eu/images/results/2013_12_pdf/D2-3-26%20SK%20IPPHEAE%20MENDELU%20Survey%20SlovakiaNarrative%20FINAL.pdf ): “There were some notable differences between the Slovak surveys and the EU average. Almost all Slovak students (99 %!) become aware of plagiarism before or during their bachelor studies. The EU average shows that 20% of students become aware of plagiarism during their masters/PhD degree or are still not sure about it.” ... Slovak students are the most aware of plagiarism among all EU countries The most outstanding example of good practice is definitely the existence of national repository of theses. As it is run centrally and universities are obliged to upload their theses, students from all institutions have theoretically the same conditions. The other aspect is that the software tool provides just a protocol for matching with other sources. The decision about whether a given case is plagiarism or not lies with teachers and/or the examination committee and these may not always follow the same procedures. Compared to other countries, Slovakia should be praised for its achievements. And it already was: The European Commission has awarded the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information the European Prize for Innovation in Public Administration. http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=admin-innovatorspg=home The responses from Slovak students demonstrated the highest level of understanding about plagiarism within the whole Europe. Their unwillingness (in comparison with other countries) to receive more training on plagiarism is therefore understandable. The research team of the IPPHEAE project would also like to praise Slovakia for existence of national repository of theses and built-in plagiarism detection tools. Centrum vedecko-technickych informácií SR (in English: Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information is directly managed by Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport; http://www.cvtisr.sk/en.html?page_id=58 ) is the operator of nationwide Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations and nationwide Plagiarism Detection System since 2010. All Slovak higher education institutions are obligatory users of both systems. Five types of theses are collected in the Central Repository - bachelor’s, master’s, dissertation, rigorous and habilitation theses. We are ready to share our experiences. More information you can find in these papers: The path to an award-winning antiplagiarism system for higher education institutions SciLogs, posted by Shannon Bohle, 2014 Available at: http://www.scilogs.com/scientific_and_medical_libraries/the-path-to-an-award-winning-antiplagiarism-system-for-higher-education-institutions/ Strategies and responses to plagiarism in Slovakia PLAGIARISM ACROSS EUROPE AND BEYOND - Conference Proceedings, 2013, pp. 201-215 Available at: http://ippheae.pefka.mendelu.cz/files/proceedings.pdf . The Occurrence of the Terms akademická etika and akademická integrita in Texts on the Internet and in the Media SciTech Blog, 2013. Available at: http://ncpvat.cvtisr.sk/buxus/generate_page.php?page_id=938 . Barrier to thriving plagiarism Conference paper - The 5th International Plagiarism Conference, 2012. Available at: http://plagiarismadvice.org/research-papers/item/barrier-to-thriving-plagiarism A “small doctorate” can be received by a person with a master’s degree. It requires that a candidate passes rigorous examination and defends his/her thesis. A prerequisite for the granting of the scientific-pedagogical degree “docent” (assistant professor) is habilitation lecture, submission and defense of the habilitation thesis.
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