Academic fraud
Academic fraud is viewed seriously and the penalties available to a Board of Examiners where academic fraud is detected are varied, but may include the withdrawal of the student's PtP and can extend to a recommendation that the degree may not be awarded. The student has the right of appeal to the Senate of the University.The university has adopted the following statement on academic fraud:
The University regards academic fraud as involving "the presentation of material as one's own when it is not one's own, and/or the presentation of material whose provenance is academically inappropriate". This may involve plagiarism -- "the act of taking another's ideas and representing them as one's own"; submitting work which has been submitted in another course, falsifying data, inventing citations etc.
Thank you for your attention to this.
Philip Winn (Dean of Science)
Lorna Milne (Dean of Arts)
The student should note this includes extracting text from the internet. The student should be warned that there are techniques available to tutors for detecting acts of plagiarism from the internet.
The best protection is to ensure rigorous adherence to the academic standard associated with citation and bibliography set out during your first year here.
Full details of the University's policy on academic misconduct.
