International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR)
  Year: 2021 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 31-35
Academic Fraud/Corruption in Nigeria Universities: Issues and Challenges
Onimole S.O., Ogunjemilua E. M. and Ojo Oluwadare S.

Abstract:
This paper addressed the issues, challenges and entrepreneurial way forward to academic fraud. The paper reviewed literatures on academic fraud, academic dishonesty and academic cheating. The results of the literature reviewed shows that students and writers participate in academic fraud knowingly and unknowingly. Also, there are triangulated factors attributed to academic fraud likewise anti-academic fraud measures. However, the study coined the five-core entrepreneurial way forward to curtailing academic fraud called "Problem-based Outreach (PbO)." Hence, it is expedient for the governing bodies on academic fraud to institute academic symposium on academic integrity into their school curriculum. The study also recommended that empirical study on factors influencing academic fraud of students in institutions in Nigeria is indispensable.