Overview

• all academic work claimed as original is the work of the author making the claim
• all academic collaborations are acknowledged
• academic work is not falsified in any way
• when the ideas of others are used, these ideas are acknowledged appropriately.

All academic and professional staff involved in learning, teaching and research are expected to display leadership in this area.

One of the University’s objectives is to produce ethically and socially aware graduates, capable of applying the skills and knowledge they have developed at University to all aspects of their lives, as well as to their academic work. Academic dishonesty undermines the integrity of the University’s academic awards and assessment processes, and damages the University’s reputation. It also reduces the effectiveness of a student’s time at the University.

Examples of some dishonest behaviours are deception, fabrication, plagiarism and sabotage.

DEFINITIONS
Deception: includes, but is not limited to, false indication of group contribution, false indication of assignment submission, collusion, submission of a work previously submitted, creating a new article out of an existing article by rewriting/reusing it, using the same data to form the same arguments and conclusion, presenting collaborative work as one’s own without acknowledging others’ contributions, cheating in an examination or using others to write material for examination.

Fabrication: includes, but is not limited to, creating fictitious clinical data, citation(s), or referee reports.

• copying out part(s) of any document or audio-visual material or computer code or website content without indicating their origins
• using or extracting another person's concepts, experimental results, or conclusions
• summarising another person's work
• submitting substantially the same final version of any material as another student in an assignment where there was collaborative preparatory work
• use of others (paid or otherwise) to conceive, research or write material submitted for assessment
• submitting the same or substantially the same piece of work for two different tasks (self-plagiarism).

Policy

1. require all students and staff to undertake their academic work honestly
2. use a range of approaches to educate students and staff to practise honesty in their academic work and raise awareness of the importance of ensuring ethical behaviour with respect to research
3. take consistent and equitable action to manage dishonest student behaviours by:
1. communicating to students that any piece of academic work can be checked at any time using an appropriate process
2. implementing a common remedial and penalty framework across the University.
3. establishing and applying appropriate, consistent procedures for detecting and investigating alleged academic dishonesty
4. providing and communicating the appeal process
4. apply the appropriate processes of the Macquarie University Enterprise Agreement to manage alleged academic dishonesty by staff.

• using appropriate mechanisms to advise staff and students of the Policy
• developing educational strategies to promote academic honesty
• developing strategies that reduce opportunities for academic dishonesty
• designing strategies to increase student engagement with their study, and their ability to submit their own work
• reviewing these strategies at appropriate intervals.

Academic Honesty Procedure / Schedule of Penalties
Assessment Policy / Procedure / Guideline
Code of Conduct
Ethics Statement
Macquarie University Enterprise Agreement