Other Forms of Academic Dishonesty

Cheating

Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials and/or assistance in any academic assignment, exercise, examination, project, presentation, report, etc. This includes the possession of a mobile phone or any other unauthorized electronic devices during a test or an examination.

Contract Cheating: Where a student commissions or engages a third party to produce work for them which is submitted by the student for assessment even if no payment of any kind is requested or made. This includes the use of essay mills or essay banks or other similar websites, portals companies or individuals.

Collusion

Collusion includes cooperation of student(s) with faculty or staff personnel in securing confidential information/material (tests, examinations, etc.); bribery by student(s) to change examination grades and/ or grade point average(s); cooperative efforts by student(s) and student assistant(s) to gain access to examinations or answers to examinations for distribution; seeking, obtaining, possessing, or giving to another person an examination or portions of an examination (not yet given), without permission of the instructor.

Fabrication

Falsifying or inventing research, citations, or any information on any academic assignment, exercise, examination, project, presentation, report, etc.

Facilitating Academic Misconduct

Aiding or assisting others in any act that may lead to a breach of Academic Integrity or acting as an intermediary for another student to commission a third party as above.Acting as an intermediary may cover acting as a “middle person” to aid or facilitate another student in Contract Cheating; it may also extend to recommending or signposting another Student to a company, third party or website, knowing that a student intended to engage in Contract Cheating.

Falsification

The presentation of fictitious or distorted data, evidence, references, citations, or experimental results, and/or to knowingly make use of such material. This includes claiming to have carried out experiments, observations or other forms of research which have not, in fact, taken place.

Forgery

Creating, altering, or using false documents, data, or signatures with the intent to deceive or gain an unfair advantage. This includes, without limitation:

• Fabrication.
• False citation: Attributing work to a source from which the referenced material was not obtained.
• Altering Official Documents: Modifying academic transcripts, recommendation letters, or other official records, sick notes and bank letters etc.; and
• Forging monograms, signatures, and other forms of authorization or identification – whether hand-written, electronic, or otherwise – on official forms or documents, attendance lists, or any academic assignments, exercises, examinations, projects, presentations, reports, etc.

Recycling

Recycling is the submission of one’s previous work to count as new work. For example, submission of a student’s work that has previously counted in another unit of study is not allowed, unless explicitly authorized by the faculty members of both study units. In such case, students must reference their previous work.

Sabotage

Destruction of, or deliberate inhibition of, the progress of another student’s work related to a course is considered sabotage and is viewed as academically dishonest. This includes the destruction or hiding of shared resources such as library materials and computer software and hardware to tampering with another person’s laboratory experiments.