Plagiarism in higher education : between tolerance and application of the law

Abstract EN

The current paper attempts to demonstrate the extent to which the legal procedures and measures that were issued by the decree N° 1082 on 27th December 2020 to diminish and deter plagiarism are applied by university teachers.

To this effect, the present paper attempts to determine whether university teachers' reaction to plagiarism when they are examiners differs from their reaction to that same issue when they are candidates.

In order to solve the aforementioned problematic, an online questionnaire was addressed to teachers from the university of Mostaganem Abdelhamid Ibn Badis and the university of Tiaret Ibn Khaldoun.

The collected data were analysed through a descriptive analysis which involved a T-Test.

After analysis, the findings indicate that there is no difference between university teachers' reaction to plagiarism when they are examiners and when they are candidates.

in other terms, in both aforementioned cases the legal procedures and measures against plagiarism are not applied.