Evaluating Students’ Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions

Plagiarism is a threat to students’ empowerment in higher education in aknowledge economy. In this paper the phenomenon of students’ plagiarism in higher education institutions and how it disempowers the advancement ofglobal knowledge by students, are discussed. The paper begins with adescription of the meaning, forms and reasons for plagiarism amongstudents. It goes further to discuss some strategies for evaluating anddetecting plagiarism in students’ works using Information technology.Finally some knowledge empowerment strategies are presented to show how lecturers could tackle plagiarism by empowering students to be genuine in receiving and producing information for constructing new knowledge