PROF Shad Saleem Faruqi’s reflections on “Integrity in academia” (The Star, Feb 21) highlights a form of academic dishonesty that has become rampant in some of our universities – that of academic staff adding their names as co-authors to the research publications of their students.
As consulting editor of a research journal (the Journal of Tropical Forest Science) I find this practice extremely disturbing because it undermines our efforts to achieve intellectual excellence, whether in the sciences or in the arts.
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