PENALTIES FOR ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING IN EXAMS ARE
SERIOUS ACADEMIC OFFENCES AND
OFFENDERS WILL BE PENALISED
Examples of penalties recently applied by the academic misconduct
committee to students who have committed such offences:
School/Institute
Offence
Determination
Accounting &
Corporate Governance
[2 cases]
Student took
unauthorised notes into
an examination
The Committee determined that the student be
awarded a failure for the unit. The student was
EXCLUDED from the University for a period
of one semester (6 months).
Architecture & Design
Student plagiarised the
work of another student
Australian Maritime
College
Plagiarism of the
contents of an essay
The Committee determined that the student be
awarded a failure for the unit. The student was
EXCLUDED from the University for a period
of two semesters (12 months).
The Committee determined that the student be
awarded a failure for the unit. The student was
EXCLUDED for a period of one semester (6
months).
Geography &
Environmental Studies
Plagiarism of the
contents of an essay
History & Classics
Law
The Committee determined that the student be
awarded a failure for the unit. The student was
EXCLUDED for a period of one semester (6
months).
Plagiarism of the
The Committee determined that the student be
contents of an essay (two awarded a failure for each relevant unit. The
offences)
student was EXCLUDED from the University
for a period of three semesters (18 months).
Student took
unauthorised notes into
an examination
The Committee determined that the student be
awarded a failure for the unit. The student was
EXCLUDED from the University for a period
of one semester (6 months).
Director, Governance & Legal
05 October 2012