At a Glance

Welcome to the archive site for the First National Conference on Educational Integrity. The major theme of the Conference was Plagiarism and other perplexities – our intention being to create dialogue around the many issues of ethics and integrity that threaten the quality of education at all levels from primary school through to university.

Educators and researchers from all sectors of education were invited to join us and contribute to one or more of our themes. The program was full and varied with internationally acclaimed keynote speakers from a variety of backgrounds, along with focused concurrent sessions.
Sessions were structured to provide participants with a variety of opportunities to contribute to the conference. Whilst there was certainly the opportunity for the formal presentation of scholarly papers, educators from schools, TAFE colleges and universities were invited to workshop their ideas in a participative, interactive environment.

!  Ensuring educational integrity in learning   environments: translating policy into practice.
   How can educational integrity be ensured in learning environments?
   How can policy be translated into practice?

!  Informing staff and students about Educational Integrity.
   How can staff and students be effectively informed about Educational Integrity?

!  Workload pressures and unethical educational attitudes and behaviours.
   What is the relationship between workload pressures and unethical academic attitudes   and behaviours for students and staff?

!  Cultural issues and Educational Integrity
   What are the cultural issues impacting Educational Integrity in Australia today?

!  Assessment practice: How to be effective.

!  Mapping a research agenda for Educational Integrity across all sectors in Australia.

We were proud to introduce the following speakers:

Don McCabe is a Professor of Organization Management at Rutgers University, USA. He has done extensive research on college cheating having surveyed over 25,000 students over the last 12 years. His work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of over 300 colleges and universities who are joined in a united effort to promote academic integrity among college and university students.
Don worked for over 20 years in the corporate world before joining Rutgers in 1988. He has a Ph.D. in Management from New York University (1985).

Stuart Littlemore QC practices at the Bar in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Perth and Papua New Guinea. He also appears on occasions in the United States of America. He has twice been elected to the Bar Council of New South Wales. In his legal work, Stuart specialises in media law, criminal law and administrative law.
In parallel with his work as a lawyer, Stuart has maintained a career as a maker of documentary films and nonfiction television programs over more than 20 years. He is probably best known for his writing and presentation of the ABC TV programs ‘Media Watch’ for nine years from 1989 to 1998 and ‘Littlemore’ in 2001. He has been employed by all Australian commercial television networks, the ABC and BBC TV in London. His memoir of professional life, “The Media and Me”, published by ABC Books, was a best-seller in 1997. He has lectured in journalism and politics at three Australian universities, and been awarded a number of fellowships – by the Australia Council, Deakin University, and the University of Tasmania.

Jude Carroll works at Oxford Brookes University in the UK Along with her other academic duties, Jude also runs workshops in the UK and internationally on topics linked to adult learning and for the last four years she has conducted research in deterring plagiarism.
In 2001, Jude participated in a British-government funded project investigating the use of electronic detection in higher education which resulted, in 2002, in the establishment of a Plagiarism Advisory Service available to all UK HEIs. Together with Jon Appleton, she co-authored the Good Practice Guide.
Jude has an MA from Oxford Brookes University in Postcompulsory Education and Adult Learning. She has taught in a range of places: nursing in a technical college in the wilds of the US, French in a boarding school in Ghana, antenatal classes in the UK and undergraduates and postgraduates at Brookes since 1990.