# | Video | Duration |
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1 | Introduction to ethical code. | 03:53 |
2 | UPF values. Plagiarism. | 05:20 |
3 | Contents of ethical code. Intellectual authorship. | 04:42 |
4 | Debate about the conflict of interest. | 03:11 |
Part II: UPF values. Plagiarism.
I commented that there were some values that I collected a few years ago, not July, long ago… that was the UPF strategy. They were the values of academic freedom, collegiality and subsidiarity, the unity of knowledge, commitment to the city, and culture of quality. These are the values. They are more or less nice words, it is difficult to disagree, what was done in that moment was to develop in each of their values.
Academic freedom, what is meant by academic freedom? When a teacher comes here and explains what he wants? –no. There is the problem, there is a teaching plan, there is a teaching objective, there are skills and thus the teacher has the freedom to explain the way that sees more convenient than what has been programmed into the teaching plan. For this reason the teacher can’t explain what he wants but it has to adhere to a schedule. The researchers, the teachers, can investigate what they believe most convenient; they don’t have to conform to the dictates of the university as a priority to do research on a number of areas. So here are some principles of academic freedom that are the foundation of any institution dedicated to research and education and teaching.
Collegiality and subsidiary is a second value, two words both strange. Basically the idea is behind the college. As school means, for example, the polytechnic high school, which consists of students (you), some teachers (of whom I am part) an administration and services staff… and all are decisions that are affecting you or us that we take in a close form as possible to the Polytechnic high school. For example a school board, in meetings with delegates, in which they try to bring the decisions, from where the affected groups are.
The unit of knowledge is very important. What does that mean? It means that sometimes, we have made engineering so that we give more for us and less for other students: “That poor student, makes another grade because he could not get into engineering”, it’s not true, their scope of knowledge is as important as it might be ours, and there must be mutual respect and absolute respect to any area of any discipline.
Commitment to the city, I think it’s obvious; it does not need to be commented to it. We are a public institution, rooted in Barcelona, financed partially by the Generalitat and we have to project our objectives of our local world to the global world.
In the culture of qualities, as I mentioned before, we discussed at length the summary that basically is what I requested involvement for in the continuous improvement of the institution at different levels and at different times.
So that it inspires the ethical code of the university, we have therefore some issues that concern us. One of the topics that worry us is plagiarism, copying: a review copy, copy work, but also the copy of a research paper that a teacher can do, not just the concept of copying that one student has more clearly. Therefore it is a topic that dedicates some lines, now we will see. What I would like to make it clear that the message is from now is to say be honest first with yourself and then with the institution in which we are, and for this reason try to eradicate each type of practices, why? Because basically what you are doing is fraud; insist a fraud with yourself in first instance and a fraud with your companions. There are students, your peers, that really are concerned, and they have called and they asked us to please close this issues once and it is very frustrating for a person who works for months, for weeks, a subject and endeavors and progress and suddenly realizes that in an evaluative moment, such an examination, a person who has never seen, arrives and makes an strange thing, a strange thing that can be to get a mobile and in a group of Whatsapp send some questions an get some answers, and from here the sense of frustration and fraud is such that the only thing that can stop this ability ourselves, therefore I would establish a pact, not matter what we have done during our past lives here understand that the rules are different and are these.