Rating academic theft amongst university teachers: Results of a Ghanaian survey

Academic corruption has become widespread within the African region with different academic stakeholders getting involved in the unethical practice. The deficit in literature is establishing the most occurring of the act by lecturers in relations to their classroom duties. Not establishing this precludes university managers from instituting measures to deal with the canker which undermines academic quality within the university system. Anchored on the Social Learning theory, the quantitative study examines the most recurrent form of lecture classroom-related academic corrupt practices in Ghanaian universities, using a sample N=141. Data obtained from an online questionnaire using google forms suggest that, lecturers not making available to students their interim assessment grades before the main examination is the most recurrent form of lecturer classroom - related academic corruption in Ghanaian universities. We recommend appropriate remediation measures based on the findings. Key words: Academic theft, Ghanaian universities, Higher Education, lecturers