What is academic misconduct?

Academic misconduct includes acts or omissions by a student that have the potential to give an unfair advantage in assessments.

This includes:

• Plagiarism: This includes inserting words from the work of someone else without acknowledging that it was their work, representing someone else’s work as your own, acquiring work to pass off as your own and assuming the identity of another student in order to mislead or deceive.
• Failing to declare that a third party has helped in the presentation of your assessed work
• Getting help from third parties in relation to proof-reading, correcting English or a target language where the learning outcomes include a specific requirement to demonstrate ability in written English or a target language
• Fabricating results from laboratory or other work or misrepresenting data
• Taking unauthorised textual materials into an assessment venue or ancillary areas such as a cloakroom or toilets. This includes any form of writing on paper or on the body
• Having an unauthorised mechanical or electronic device on your person within an assessment venue or ancillary area such as a cloakroom or toilets
• Passing off the work of others as your own during an online assessment
• Falsely claiming that you have qualifications that you do not validly hold or experience that you have not acquired or falsely claiming that you have undertaken work that you have not.