- All students are required to comply with the principles of Academic Integrity as published from time to time.
18. Failure to comply with the principles of Academic Integrity may be considered to be a disciplinary matter.
19. Examples of breaches of the principles of Academic Integrity include but are not limited to:
• Plagiarism. This is defined by the University as:
• Copying of sentences, paragraphs, computer files, research data, and/or creative products that are the works of other persons or sources, without appropriate acknowledgement.
• Closely paraphrasing sentences, paragraphs or themes without appropriate acknowledgement.
• Submitting one’s own previously assessed or published work for assessment or publication elsewhere, without appropriate acknowledgement and approval.
• Submitting material obtained from internet-based essay depositories, ‘homework’ and file-sharing websites or other similar sources when not permitted.
• Submission of work overly reliant on model answers or sample solutions provided in the course materials.
• Cheating in any examination or test. For example, unauthorised use of crib cards, electronic devices, cell phones, or study notes, or uploading or otherwise sharing questions to online and/or social media communities, seeking unauthorised assistance with answering, using translation software/devices when not permitted.
• Submitting work as one’s own for assessment, which work has been done in whole or in part by someone other than the student or which has been created artificially, for example by a machine or through generative artificial intelligence. This includes work completed for a student by a peer, family member or friend or which has been produced, commercially or otherwise, by a third party (e.g. Contract Cheating or ghost writing). It also includes submitting all or part of an assessment item which has been produced using generative artificial intelligence, and claiming it as the student’s own work.
• Citing references that have not been read or reviewed, or that have been falsified, to give credibility to the assignment or show evidence of research.
• Presenting data with respect to laboratory work, clinical placements, practica, field trips or other work, that has been copied or falsified.
• In the case of collaborative projects, falsely representing the individual contributions of the collaborative partners.
• Presenting data obtained improperly (e.g. data collected without prior approval of the relevant ethics committee or ethical considerations).
• Any misrepresentation in relation to authorship, academic achievement or records.
• Any inappropriate assistance given to a current student to be dishonest or fraudulent with academic assessment, including selling or providing previously completed assignments to a current student.
• Sharing or assigning student works or scholarly works in which the University owns Intellectual Property in a way that does not comply with the University’s Intellectual Property Policy (e.g. inappropriately sharing assessments or course material).
• Any breach of the Code of Responsible Research Conduct.
20. Breaches of Academic Integrity will be managed in accordance with the Procedures for Managing Student Breaches of Academic Integrity and the Student Disciplinary Regulations. Where such a breach, including Academic Misconduct, by a student is found to have occurred, educative and/or disciplinary outcomes may be imposed.
21. Those outcomes include but are not limited to:
(a) a warning;
(b) remedial/educative advice;
(c) recommendation to undertake an appropriate learning support activity;
(d) repeat assessment, or part thereof, and present for marking with or without a capped mark;
(e) reduced mark (up to zero) for affected section of the assessment task;
(f) zero marks for the whole assessment in which the breach occurred;
(g) fail grade for the course in which the breach occurred;
(h) period of suspension from the University;
(i) exclusion from the University.
22. The University may rescind a qualification already awarded to a student or former student, where Academic Misconduct of a serious nature is revealed post-graduation.
23. Failure of a student to participate in a remedial activity required by the University under these regulations may result in an escalation of outcome.
24. A record of a finding of Academic Misconduct may be maintained on the University’s Misconduct Register.
25. Notwithstanding Regulations 17 to 24, Academic Misconduct may also be addressed through the Student Disciplinary Regulations or other relevant disciplinary processes, including recourse to the civil and/or criminal justice systems.
26. Appeals may be made by students in accordance with the process described in the Student Disciplinary Regulations or the Procedures for managing Student Breaches of Academic Integrity.