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Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion
Cases of suspected cheating in written examinations will be reported as soon as detected to Student and Examinations Division, Senate House and will be dealt with initially by the Advisory Board on Discipline. Suspicion of plagiarism or collusion will be considered by the Board of Examiners. In the School of Biological Sciences this is the Year 1 and 2 Board of Studies. If the Board decides that plagiarism or collusion has taken place, the Board shall have the discretion to award the marks (if any) which it thinks appropriate in the light of the gravity of the plagiarism or collusion involved.
The Chair of the appropriate Board will inform a student suspected of plagiarism or collusion of the matter under investigation and will invite the student to provide an explanation of the circumstances. The student will be afforded an opportunity to make any representations he/she may wish to make to the Chair of the appropriate Board (or to his/her nominated representative), as part of the procedures set out in the current University Calendar, to which reference should be made for further information.
Cheating includes:
- Communicating with or copying from any other student during an examination;
- Communicating during an examination with any person other than a properly authorised invigilator or other authorised member of staff;
- Introducing any written or printed material or any electronically-stored information into the examination room, unless expressly permitted by the examination board or course regulations;
- Gaining access to unauthorised material during or before an examination;
- The provision or assistance in the provision of false evidence of knowledge or understanding in examinations.
Plagiarism includes:
The representation of work, written or otherwise, of any other person, including another student, or any institution, as the candidate’s own. Examples of plagiarism may be any of the following forms:
- The verbatim copying of another’s work without acknowledgement;
- The close paraphrasing of another’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the order of presentation, without acknowledgement;
- Unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another’s work;
- The deliberate and detailed presentation of another’s concept as one’s own.
Collusion includes:
The conscious collaboration, without official approval, between two or more students in the preparation and production of work which is ultimately submitted by each in an identical, or substantially similar form and/or is represented by each to be the product of his or her individual efforts. Collusion also occurs where there is unauthorised co-operation between a student and another person in the preparation and production of work which is presented as the student’s own.
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