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Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue?

Moore, G.

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This paper reviews a publication entitled 'Ethics Matters. Managing Ethical Issues in Higher Education', which was distributed to all UK universities and equivalent (HEIs) in October 2005. The publication proposed that HEIs should put in place an institution-wide ethical policy framework, well beyond the customary focus on research ethics, together with the mechanisms necessary to ensure its implementation. Having summarised the processes that led to the publication and the publication itself, the paper then considers whether following the now commonplace corporate practice of implementing a code of ethics is appropriate for such institutions. Drawing on both the empirical evidence in relation to codes in the business ethics literature and a consideration of the nature of the university as an institution, the paper offers an alternative suggestion for how ethical issues in higher education might be managed.

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Moore, G. (2006). Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue?. Business ethics (Oxford. Print), 15(4), 407-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00462.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2006
Deposit Date Aug 26, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Business Ethics: A European Review
Print ISSN 0962-8770
Electronic ISSN 1467-8608
Publisher Blackwell
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 15
Issue 4
Pages 407-418
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00462.x
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1554229

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