Any form of cheating or attempting to cheat, academic misconduct or plagiarism is unacceptable and will be considered a breach of the Student Contract.
Academic Misconduct, Cheating and Plagiarism relates to the completion of assessment activities and the assessment evidence submitted by a Learner for the purposes of being assessed.
All breaches brought to our attention will be investigated. If upon investigation, there is sufficient grounds to support the decision that a breach of student contract has occurred the matter will then be referred to the Disciplinary Procedures process which may lead you to being withdrawn from the programme.
Where the breach includes cheating or attempting to cheat, your actions will be deemed serious misconduct.
Students must avoid using the words or ideas of another writer without credit and presenting them as your own. Plagiarism ranges from copying someone else’s work word for word, rewriting someone else’s work with only minor word changes, and summarising work without acknowledging the source.
Students must not:
- Submit any evidence for assesssment that has not been produced by the Learner for the purpose of assessment
- Share, or otherwise allow their work to be copied, in full or in part, by another for the purposes of cheating
- Copy, paraphrase or summarise another person’s work or ideas from any source and represent it as their own work, without correctly acknowledging the original source (this is plagiarism)
- Copy from their own previously assessed work and present it as findings or discussion in a new assessment task
- Submit work that has been prepared for another paper/unit/module/assessment without permission or without self-referencing
- Falsify data, information or citations
- Falsely claim to have submitted an assessment or provide false information as to the reason for missing a deadline
- Wilfully act to prevent other students from completing their work
- Look at the work of another person or copy from another person during in an assessment
- Allow another person to look at their work or copy from them during an assessment
- Approach a third party to undertake their assessment
- Breach the rules relating to Assessments
With Programme Manager approval, Learners may have special support or assessment conditions (Special Assessment Conditions) provided for assessment in cases where what is being assessed, does not relate to the type of support provided as this support would not be considered as Academic Misconduct.