THE GENESIS OF LEGAL SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC VIRTUE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the determination of the peculiarity of stages of legal support of academic virtue in Ukraine.

It has been proven that the first stage for development of legal support to academic virtue has started in 2004, when the allEuropean processes of increasing the role of universities within a society have been initiated as well as the transformation of requirements to the participants of educational activity. This stage has been characterized by the acceptance of a Bucharest declaration on ethical values and principles of higher education in the European region (2-5 September 2004) and its result has been the establishment of an overall European discourse of academic virtue which included pedagogical, ethical and legal aspects of the phenomenon under research.

It has been pointed out, that the third stage of legal support to academic virtue is related with stipulating in 2011 within a National framework, the qualifications of adherence to proper academic virtue as the one that is considered to be necessary to initiate, plan, implement and correct the subsequent process of a thorough scientific research of the level of basic skills and abilities. From this moment on there’s an active development of the terminological core dedicated to the issue of academic virtue, there’s a preparation of suggestions to be implemented to the legislation on education, particularly, by determining the legal definition of academic virtue, the forms and types of academic responsibility, and also the active reaffirming of ethical requirements on the academic virtues of teachers, scientists and individuals obtaining education in the codes of academic virtues, approved in the course of gatherings of working teams or the scientific councils of universities.