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Altering evidence after allegation
Can editing or recreating drafts, timestamps or metadata after an allegation be treated as evidence tampering or further misconduct?
Read the answer →Third-party assistance and academic misconduct
When can help from a tutor, proofreader, editor, friend or family member become academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Admission used against another student
Can one student’s admission or statement be used to find another student guilty of misconduct?
Read the answer →University duty to give misconduct reasons
Must the university give detailed reasons for finding academic misconduct and choosing the penalty?
Read the answer →Defending plagiarism from third-party services
Can I defend a plagiarism allegation if a proofreader or tutoring service copied or sold my work?
Read the answer →Academic misconduct viva authorship concerns
What happens at an authorship viva, and can poor answers prove that I did not write my work?
Read the answer →Plagiarism in ungraded work
Can I be penalised for plagiarism or collusion in formative, draft or ungraded work?
Read the answer →Academic misconduct penalty outside regulations
Can the university impose an academic-misconduct penalty that is not allowed by its regulations?
Read the answer →Degree revocation after graduation
Can the university investigate academic misconduct after I have graduated and revoke my degree?
Read the answer →Amending misconduct allegations mid-investigation
Can the university change or add misconduct allegations after the investigation has begun?
Read the answer →Marks withheld during academic misconduct case
Can the university withhold my marks or prevent progression or graduation while an academic-misconduct case is unresolved?
Read the answer →False evidence in academic appeal
Can false or altered evidence in a mitigating-circumstances claim or academic appeal lead to misconduct proceedings?
Read the answer →Copying code and plagiarism
Can copying code from GitHub, Stack Overflow or open-source software amount to plagiarism?
Read the answer →Academic misconduct allegation over missing records
What can I do if the university accuses me of fabricating data because I cannot produce raw files or research records?
Read the answer →Prior academic misconduct in new case
When can my previous academic-misconduct record be used against me in a new case?
Read the answer →Digital evidence in exam cheating allegations
Can online-exam login times, IP addresses or completion speed be used to prove cheating?
Read the answer →Undeclared AI use as academic misconduct
Can failing to declare or acknowledge permitted AI use be academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Impersonation in university assessment
What happens if someone else takes a university exam or completes an assessment for me?
Read the answer →Investigator impartiality in misconduct proceedings
Can the lecturer who raised an allegation also investigate it or sit on the misconduct panel?
Read the answer →Increased penalty after misconduct appeal
Can the university increase my academic-misconduct penalty because I denied the allegation or appealed?
Read the answer →Unauthorised items in exam misconduct
Can having a phone, smartwatch, notes or an unauthorised calculator in an exam be misconduct even if I did not use it?
Read the answer →Collusion accusation over copied coursework
Can I be accused of collusion if another University student copies my work without permission?
Read the answer →Permitted materials in open-book exams
What materials, websites and communications are allowed in an open-book or 24-hour university exam?
Read the answer →University AI misconduct with unclear rules
Can I be penalised at University for using AI when the rules were unclear, changed later or a tutor said it was allowed?
Read the answer →Fabricating research data as academic misconduct
Can making up or altering survey responses, lab results or dissertation data be academic misconduct?
Read the answer →University disclosure of misconduct rule
Must the university identify the exact academic-misconduct rule it says I broke?
Read the answer →Wrong file upload as misconduct
Can an accidental wrong-file or wrong-module upload be treated as academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Attendance fraud academic misconduct
Can signing another student into a class or asking someone to record my attendance lead to misconduct proceedings?
Read the answer →Data collection without ethics approval
Can collecting data without the correct research ethics approval be academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Sharing assignment after submission and collusion
Can sharing my University assignment after I have submitted it still amount to collusion?
Read the answer →Proving contract cheating from writing style
Can a change in writing style or a difference between my spoken and written English prove contract cheating?
Read the answer →Intention requirement for academic misconduct
Does academic misconduct require an intention to cheat, or can an accidental or unsuccessful breach still be punished?
Read the answer →Minor first offence academic misconduct classification
Should a minor first offence be treated as poor academic practice rather than academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Mitigating circumstances in academic misconduct
Can illness, stress or difficult personal circumstances reduce an academic-misconduct penalty?
Read the answer →Sharing leaked exam material as misconduct
Can receiving or sharing leaked exam questions or answers in a WhatsApp group be academic misconduct even if I do not use them?
Read the answer →False word count academic misconduct
Can deliberately giving a false word count be academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Burden and standard of proof in academic misconduct
Who must prove academic misconduct, and what standard of proof applies?
Read the answer →Access to misconduct evidence
Can I request emails and evidence used in University misconduct proceedings?
Read the answer →False accusation of AI misuse
What can I do if I am falsely accused of using AI at University?
Read the answer →Right to attend university misconduct hearing
Am I entitled to see the evidence and attend a misconduct hearing at University?
Read the answer →Fabricated AI references in academic work
What happens at University when AI produces false or fabricated references?
Read the answer →Appealing academic sanction affecting career
Can I appeal a sanction that affects my degree, visa, reference or professional career?
Read the answer →Whether editing tools constitute unauthorised AI
Can Grammarly, translation software or a paraphrasing tool count as unauthorised AI?
Read the answer →Distinguishing collaboration from academic collusion
When does discussing work or sharing notes become collusion?
Read the answer →Using metadata to disprove AI allegation
Can document history, drafts and metadata help disprove an AI allegation?
Read the answer →Turnitin similarity score and plagiarism
Does a high Turnitin similarity percentage prove plagiarism?
Read the answer →Group penalty for individual cheating
Can the whole group be penalised because one member cheated at University?
Read the answer →AI use academic misconduct
Is using AI for planning, coding or brainstorming academic misconduct?
Read the answer →Self-plagiarism in academic work
Can I be penalised for reusing parts of my own previous work?
Read the answer →Representation at university misconduct hearing
Can I have a representative, adviser or solicitor at the University misconduct hearing?
Read the answer →Plagiarism versus poor referencing
What is the difference between plagiarism and poor referencing?
Read the answer →Essay-writing service blackmail
What can I do if an essay-writing service blackmails me?
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