Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to good study practices and shared values, which ensures that your work is a true expression of your own understanding and ideas, giving credit to others where their work contributes to yours.

This University definition of academic integrity recognises that each individual has a responsibility to contribute honestly within our academic community. Breaching academic integrity standards can lead to serious penalties. Make sure that you are familiar with the information in the pages below, complete the relevant Academic Integrity Tutorials and Tests, and develop your understanding of good study practices through the Skills@Library webpages to ensure that your own work is your best work. Learn more about our definition of academic integrity by exploring the headers and links below.

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Allowing someone else to do your work for you

There are a number of reasons why you must not allow someone else to do your work for you; so that they

Claiming credit for someone else’s work: Plagiarism

You must not present someone else’s work, in whole or in part, as your own. Plagiarism may be deliberate or accidental. Work means any intellectual output, and typically includes text, data, images, designs, sound and performance.

Declarations of Academic Integrity

When you submit for assessment, you are declaring to the University that your work is your own.

Including made-up content in your assessments

Your work, such as reports of laboratory or practical work, or dissertation research results, must not contain material that is untrue and/or made up.

Re-using your own work

You must not re-use exactly the same work that you have previously submitted for assessment, either at this University, or for credit at school, college or any other educational institution.

Rule-Breaking in Exams and Timed Online Assessments

You must not attempt to gain unfair advantage by accessing questions in advance; bringing unauthorised items into an exam; copying or accessing unauthorised information; communicating with other students, or any other breach of rules on exams and on-line tests.

What do we mean by “good study practices”?

Academic integrity rests on the same practices and skills, as does academic excellence. If you develop and apply these practices and skills, your work will not just be truly your own, but also the best that it can be.

What do we mean by “shared values”?

Integrity is one of the University’s defining values, meaning that we share a commitment to openness and honesty in our words and actions. This extends to everyone – staff and students alike – and to all aspects of University life.

Working with others on individual assessments: Collusion

You must not work with others on assessment intended to be produced independently. Such actions may be deliberate or accidental and cover all stages of the preparation, composition, editing and submission of work for assessment.