Breaches and Penalties 2
Details from University Calendar
All faculties have an academic integrity officer who keeps a formal record of any breaches of academic integrity.
A summary of penalties for breaches of academic integrity are shown below. For full details see University Calendar Section IV Appendix 1 http://www.calendar.soton.ac.uk/sectionIV/academic-integrity-procedures.html
Stage 1 : Minor Incidents
First recorded incident of:
- Small amount of plagiarism which may be the result of poor academic practice
- Collusion leading to limited similarity between submitted assessment items.
a) Provide feedback and issue a warning to be retained on the student’s file. Award a mark appropriate to the work submitted taking account of the fact that not all the work is that of the student.
Stage 2 : Intermediate Incidents
Any repeat incident
- Moderate amount of plagiarism/extensive plagiarism with strong evidence eg: matched text
- Collusion leading to significant similarities between submitted items
- Copying
- Recycling
- Minor breaches of examination regulations, eg: inadvertent use of the wrong type of calculator
(a) Provide feedback and issue a warning to be retained on the student’s file. Award a mark appropriate to the work submitted taking account of the fact that not all the work is that of the student.
(b) Require the student to re-submit the same piece of work for a capped mark (should the student refuse the re-submit the work a mark of 0 will be awarded).
(c) Award no marks for the piece of work.
(d) Award a fail grade for the module/unit concerned, with or without the right of resit.
Stage 3 : Major Incident
- Extensive plagiarism
- Serial plagiarism – any
- Ghosting/use of essay bank services
- Impersonation
- Falsification
- Deliberate breaches of examination regulations; eg: unauthorised use of notes in examination rooms
(d) Award a fail grade for the module/unit concerned with or without the right of resit
(e) Failure in the year as a whole
(f) Reduction in degree class
(g) Termination of programme
(h) Deprivation of award*
*Please note that penalty (h) can only be imposed on the authority of Senate.