These procedures are applicable to cases of academic misconduct involving Swansea University students, students on integrated programmes of The College, Swansea University and joint cases involving Swansea University students and/or students of The College, Swansea University on integrated programmes and students of The College, Swansea University on non-integrated programmes. Cases of academic misconduct involving students of The College, Swansea University on non-integrated programmes shall be dealt with by The College, Swansea University.[1]

[1] Integrated programmes are defined as those semesters of a degree pathway with modules delivered by the University and The College, Swansea University. Non-integrated programmes are those semesters of a degree pathway with modules delivered solely by of The College, Swansea University.

Appendix

Table 1: Penalties under examination conditions

Allegation/ OffenceIllustrative ExamplePenalty
1st allegation (no previous offence) Minor breach of examination regulations e.g written or verbal communication which clearly has no bearing on the examination and is not of an academic nature Written warning
1st allegation (no previous offence) Moderate breach of examination regulations e.g.where a student has attempted written or verbal communication with another student relating to the examination or copying from another student’s work Cancellation of the mark for the paper
1st allegation (no previous offence) Major breaches of examination regulations, e.g. notes taken into examination, which are relevant to the subject area Mark of 0% in the module

1st allegation
(no previous offence)

Serious breaches of examination regulations, with evidence of premeditated action e.g., notes pasted into reference books, im-personating another or allowing themselves to be impersonated, use of electronic devices pre-set with relevant material  Cancellation of all marks for the level of study

Table 2: Penalties under non-examination conditions

Allegation/ OffenceCaseIllustrative ExamplePenalty

1st allegation 

(no previous offence)

Academic Misconduct Minor plagiarism to include where the amount of the work affected was small and/or it is early in the student’s academic career or there is well-founded reason to suppose that the student did not understand the academic conventions Written warning and plagiarised text to be ignored when marking, resulting in a reduced mark

1st allegation 

(no previous offence)

Academic Misconduct Minor plagiarism from published work listed in the bibliography or minor amounts from a source not listed in a bibliography, misrepresentation of data which is of minor importance Mark of 0% for the assignment

1st allegation 

(no previous offence)

Academic Misconduct Plagiarism from published work listed in the bibliography or minor amounts from a source not listed in the bibliography; misrepresentation of data which is of minor importance Mark of 0% for the module
component(s)

1st allegation 

(no previous offence)

Academic Misconduct  Plagiarism from published work not listed in the bibliography or large sections of plagiarised text in the work with the source listed in the bibliography; unauthorised collusion with another student; falsification of data which is substantial in extent or importance and where the data forms the basis of the conclusion/knowledge Mark of 0% for the module as a whole

1st allegation
(no previous offence)

  Large or substantial texts plagiarised in more than one assignment/module; misrepresentation or falsification of data which is major in extent or importance; placing of an order for a commissioned assignment with no evidence of submission Cancellation of all marks for the level of study

1st allegation 

(no previous offence) 

Extreme cases (SU Committee of Enquiry only)

Commissioning another (person or system) to prepare the work on the student’s behalf and the student passing it off as their own

Falsification/forgery of University documents; use of essay writing companies (purchased or unpurchased work); fabrication of data

Cancellation of all marks and disqualification

2nd allegation (previous offence)  

 

Minor Plagiarism from published work listed in the bibliography or minor amounts from a source not listed in the bibliography; misrepresentation of data which is of minor importance

Plagiarism from published work not listed in the bibliography or large sections of plagiarised text in the work with the source listed in the bibliography; unauthorised collusion with another student; falsification of data which is substantial in extent or importance and where the data forms the basis of the conclusion/knowledge

Mark of 0% for the module as a whole

Cancellation of all marks for the level of study

2nd allegation (previous offence)

 

Large or substantial texts plagiarised in more than one assignment/module; misrepresentation or falsification of data which is major in extent or importance

Placing of an order for a commissioned assignment with no evidence of submission; commissioning another (person or system) to prepare the work on the student’s behalf and the student passing it off as their own

Falsification/forgery of University documents; use of essay writing companies (purchased or unpurchased work); fabrication of data

Cancellation of all marks for the level of study and disqualification

3rd allegation
(previous offence)

Academic Misconduct

Any third offence

Cancellation of all marks for the level of study and disqualification

Table 3: penalties research degrees or taught master's directed independent learning

Allegation/OffenceCasePenalty
1st allegation (no previous offence) Minor academic misconduct which does not affect the substance of the research Fail, with a right of resubmission
1st allegation (no previous offence)  Major act of academic misconduct e.g. substantial sections of the thesis are copied from another source, or statistics are fabricated/copied Fail, with no provision for resubmission
2nd allegation (previous offence)   Fail, with no provision for resubmission