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Discipline: Student Policy

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The Discipline: Student Policy and Discipline: Student Procedures ensure that student discipline proceedings for academic and general misconduct follow standard procedures. Key features of this policy are outlined below.

General misconduct

General misconduct is any behaviour in which is contrary to a policy of the University or to generally accepted standards of behaviour and includes behaviour which attacks, harasses, intimidates, threatens or endangers others.

Academic misconduct

Academic misconduct is cheating, attempting to cheat or assisting a fellow student to cheat, or submission of similar work. Any means used to obtain an unfair advantage in work submitted for assessment may be considered as cheating. Examples include cheating in examinations, intentional plagiarism (see Plagiarism Policy In this section of the guide), collusion or submitting a false medical certificate in support of an application for special consideration. Penalties are outlined in Statute 4.1 (see below).

Definitions

Assisting to Cheat

Assisting to cheat means assisting a student with an examination or other written or practical work with the intention that the student will thereby obtain an unfair advantage.

Cheating

Seeking to obtain an unfair advantage in an examination or in other written or practical work required to be submitted or completed for assessment.

Collusion

Unauthorised collaboration on assessable work with another person or persons.

Penalties for misconduct

Where a discipline committee determines that an act of general misconduct has occurred, or that a student has assisted another student to cheat, the committee must impose one or more of the following penalties:

  • a reprimand
  • a fine not exceeding $500
  • suspension from the university for a specified period
  • exclusion from the university
  • payment to the university of a sum sufficient to make good any damage caused by the student.

Where a discipline committee determines that cheating has occurred the committee must impose one or more of the following penalties:

  • a reprimand
  • disallowance of the work concerned by prohibiting assessment or, where the work has been assessed, annulling the result in the assessed work
  • failure in the unit of which the work concerned forms the whole or a part
  • suspension from the university for a specified period
  • exclusion from the university.

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