Common use of Academic Misconduct Clause in Contracts

Academic Misconduct. 4.2.1 Maintaining fair and honest conduct is an essential requirement of the system for assessing students’ learning. There are policies for academic offences in taught awards. For more information, see the HE Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure. 4.2.2 The definitions of academic misconduct assume dishonest intent. An academic offence is an attempt by a student to gain an unfair advantage in any assessment (including in practice) by deception or fraudulent means. The following are examples of academic offences, and it is also an offence to assist a student to do any of these things: • Plagiarism: representing another person’s work as your own or using another person’s work without acknowledgement, and duplication or ‘self-plagiarism,’ using material that has already been submitted for assessment or the submission or presentation of work as one's own which is substantially the ideas or intellectual data of another or created artificially • Buying material or paying another person to complete an assignment, or using editors, translators or proof-readers who contribute significantly to the content • Misconduct in examinations or tests: such as copying or communicating, using notes or other prompts, calculator fraud • Impersonation, forgery, bribery, falsifying data • False claims of mitigating/exceptional circumstances 4.2.3 To prevent plagiarism, protect the intellectual property of both UCKM and its students and to assist with feedback to students, UCKM may use plagiarism detection software or other technology as appropriate. 4.2.4 All academic offences are serious. A second or subsequent offence or an offence compounded by lying or deception, or aggravated in some other way may be treated as more serious even if it would usually be considered a lesser offence. 4.2.5 If you plagiarise your assignment work, the College will be required to report you to the relevant qualification awarding body and you may be subject to disciplinary action as a result. 4.2.6 Identification of plagiarism will be assessed using the AMBeR Tariff System. Details of this are available through your Programme Teams page on enrolment. 4.2.7 In summary, any academic offence of this nature will be scored based on the level of study, evidence of previous occurrences, the amount of material identified as an issue, the weighting of the piece of work in question and any evidence of means to hide any possible academic offence. This determines the level of penalty in response to the offence. Types of penalty include the following: • Awarding the ability to resubmit improved work for a caped mark • Awarding the ability to resubmit a new piece of work with a capped mark • Awarding a mark of 0 and the piece of work cannot be resubmitted • Limits on the level of award for a unit • Withdrawal or dismissal from the programme 4.2.8 Research misconduct includes (but is not limited to): • Fabrication: making up results or other outputs and presenting them as though they were real • Falsification: manipulating research processes or changing or omitting data without proper cause • Piracy: deliberate exploitation of ideas from others without proper acknowledgement • Plagiarism: copying or misappropriating ideas (or their expression), text, software or data (or a combination) without permission and acknowledgement • Misrepresentation: a deliberate attempt to represent falsely or unfairly the ideas or work of others, whether or not for personal gain or enhancement • Academic fraud: deliberate deception which includes the invention or fabrication of data and/or experimentation • Improprieties of authorship: including improper inclusion or exclusion of individuals as authors; misrepresentation or duplication of substantially similar material that has previously been the focus of your own published research findings without due referencing • Non-compliance of research governance: failure to comply with appropriate internal and external requirements such as regulatory, financial, legal and/or ethical approval • Serious breach of research ethics as defined in the Research Ethics Code of Practice: Policy and Procedure that is not dealt with through student/ staff disciplinary or other UCKM procedure • Facilitating misconduct in research: deliberate concealment of research misconduct by others or collusion in such research • Inciting others to commit research misconduct: deliberate encouragement of others to conduct research in an untruthful or unfair manner • Improper dealing with allegations of research misconduct: failing to address possible infringements such as attempts to cover up research misconduct and reprisals against whistleblowers

Academic Misconduct. 4.2.1 Maintaining fair and honest conduct is an essential requirement of the system for assessing students’ learning. There are policies for academic offences in taught awards. For more information, see the KMS 112 HE Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure. 4.2.2 The definitions of academic misconduct assume dishonest intent. An academic offence is an attempt by a student to gain an unfair advantage in any assessment (including in practice) by deception or fraudulent means. The following are examples of academic offences, and it is also an offence to assist a student to do any of these things: • Plagiarism: representing another person’s work as your own or using another person’s work without acknowledgement, and duplication or ‘self-plagiarism,’ using material that has already been submitted for assessment or the submission or presentation of work as one's own which is substantially the ideas or intellectual data of another or created artificially • Buying material or paying another person to complete an assignment, or using editors, translators or proof-readers who contribute significantly to the content • Misconduct in examinations or tests: such as copying or communicating, using notes or other prompts, calculator fraud • Impersonation, forgery, bribery, falsifying data • False claims of mitigating/exceptional circumstances 4.2.3 To prevent plagiarism, protect the intellectual property of both UCKM and its students and to assist with feedback to students, UCKM may use plagiarism detection software or other technology as appropriate. 4.2.4 All academic offences are serious. A second or subsequent offence or an offence compounded by lying or deception, or aggravated in some other way may be treated as more serious even if it would usually be considered a lesser offence. 4.2.5 If you plagiarise your assignment work, the College will be required to report you to the relevant qualification awarding body and you may be subject to disciplinary action as a result. 4.2.6 Identification of plagiarism will be assessed using the AMBeR Tariff System. Details of this are available through your Programme Teams page on enrolment. 4.2.7 In summary, any academic offence of this nature will be scored based on the level of study, evidence of previous occurrences, the amount of material identified as an issue, the weighting of the piece of work in question and any evidence of means to hide any possible academic offence. This determines the level of penalty in response to the offence. Types of penalty include the following: • Awarding the ability to resubmit improved work for a caped mark • Awarding the ability to resubmit a new piece of work with a capped mark • Awarding a mark of 0 and the piece of work cannot be resubmitted • Limits on the level of award for a unit • Withdrawal or dismissal from the programme 4.2.8 Research misconduct includes (but is not limited to): • Fabrication: making up results or other outputs and presenting them as though they were real • Falsification: manipulating research processes or changing or omitting data without proper cause • Piracy: deliberate exploitation of ideas from others without proper acknowledgement • Plagiarism: copying or misappropriating ideas (or their expression), text, software or data (or a combination) without permission and acknowledgement • Misrepresentation: a deliberate attempt to represent falsely or unfairly the ideas or work of others, whether or not for personal gain or enhancement • Academic fraud: deliberate deception which includes the invention or fabrication of data and/or experimentation • Improprieties of authorship: including improper inclusion or exclusion of individuals as authors; misrepresentation or duplication of substantially similar material that has previously been the focus of your own published research findings without due referencing • Non-compliance of research governance: failure to comply with appropriate internal and external requirements such as regulatory, financial, legal and/or ethical approval • Serious breach of research ethics as defined in the Research Ethics Code of Practice: Policy and Procedure that is not dealt with through student/ staff disciplinary or other UCKM procedure • Facilitating misconduct in research: deliberate concealment of research misconduct by others or collusion in such research • Inciting others to commit research misconduct: deliberate encouragement of others to conduct research in an untruthful or unfair manner • Improper dealing with allegations of research misconduct: failing to address possible infringements such as attempts to cover up research misconduct and reprisals against whistleblowers