Notice To All Students

• Plagiarism is a major offence in the University
• It is the act of taking and using another persons' thoughts or work as your own.
• It includes inadequate referencing, reproducing the work (even with small changes) of another taken from books, journals, articles, TV programmes, the Internet, lectures and so on.
• It also includes copying another person's work, with or without his/her consent.
• Also included is collusion where a group of people collaborate or collude to present an assessment or a substantial part thereof, when the examiner required individual research and outcome.
• These offences will be dealt with by the University with the utmost gravity.
• You should be very clear how to reference your assessed work.
• You should not use another student's assessed work -either with or without their consent unless you attribute it to him/her.
• You should not give your assessed work to another student for him/her to copy.
• You should familiarise yourself with the University's Regulation on Plagiarism, Copying and Collusion (see Registry Website)
• You must sign and submit the declaration which is included on the Regulation on Plagiarism, Copying and Collusion with EACH piece of assessed work you submit.
• You can expect a penalty concomitant with the seriousness of an offence against the Regulation