At Ablaikhan University, academic integrity is the foundation of high-quality education, objective assessment, and responsible research. Upholding its principles is a shared responsibility of students, faculty members, researchers, and university staff.
1. Honesty
Every member of the academic community acts with integrity and presents the results of their own academic, research, and professional work without deception, plagiarism, falsification, or misappropriation of the intellectual work of others.
2. Responsibility
Students and university staff bear personal responsibility for complying with academic integrity standards, the quality of their work, the accuracy and reliability of the results they present, and the consequences of any violations.
3. Fairness
The University ensures equal requirements and conditions for all participants in the educational process. Learning outcomes are assessed objectively on the basis of clearly defined and transparent criteria established in advance.
4. Transparency
Requirements for academic assignments, assessment procedures, examinations, research activities, and responsibility for violations must be open, clear, and accessible to all members of the academic community.
5. Trust
The academic environment is built on mutual trust among students, faculty members, researchers, and the University. Trust is maintained through the honest fulfilment of responsibilities, objective decision-making, and compliance with established rules.
6. Respect
Every member of the university community respects the rights, dignity, opinions, and intellectual work of others. When using the ideas, texts, research, data, or other materials of others, proper citation practices must be followed and authorship must be appropriately acknowledged.
7. Academic independence
Students are expected to complete assignments independently unless a different form of work has been specified by the instructor. Students must not have another person complete their work, complete assignments on behalf of another student, or present someone else’s work as their own.
8. Accuracy and reliability
The results of academic and research activities must be based on accurate and reliable data. Fabrication, falsification, deliberate distortion of research results, sources, or other academic information is not permitted.
9. Respect for authorship and intellectual property
Ablaikhan University promotes a responsible approach to intellectual work. When using ideas, texts, images, data, research findings, or other materials, sources must be properly acknowledged and established standards of citation and copyright must be observed.
10. Responsible use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence and other digital tools must comply with the requirements of the specific academic assignment, University regulations, and the principles of academic integrity.
AI should be used as a tool to support learning and research rather than as a substitute for the independent intellectual work of a student or researcher. Where required by University regulations or an instructor, the use of artificial intelligence tools must be appropriately disclosed.