Current Academic Integrity Policy
The current MIC Academic Integrity Policy is publicly accessible through the MIC Policies page of the College website.
The policy is presented under seven sections, setting out in the preamble that:
Academic Integrity refers to honesty and responsibility in academic practice and scholarship. It values ethical academic behaviour and the avoidance of plagiarism, cheating, fraudulent representation of academic work and other dishonesty in academic endeavours.
The policy, in section one, outlines that Academic Dishonesty includes:
- Falsely representing the work of others as one’s own in an assignment.
- Copying of ideas or work of fellow students.
- Copying from published works, in assignments, without proper acknowledgement, i.e. plagiarism.
- Using co-authoring assistance in individual academic work, including the commissioning or purchasing of essay writing services, i.e. syndication.
- Using technical assistance in assignments where it has not been authorised, e.g. using translation software in a translation assignment.
- Signing attendance records on behalf of a classmate.
- Fabricating results or research findings in an assignment.
- Using false information to gain extensions to deadlines or i-grades.
- Cheating in examinations by copying or using unauthorised materials.
- Misrepresenting achievements on application forms.
In accordance with MIC's Code of Student Conduct (also available from the MIC Policies page), it is disciplinary offence to engage in academic cheating and the College Discipline Committee "shall be entitled to impose the most severe penalty, that of expulsion from the College, where in the Committee’s view, the gravity of the offence or the College disciplinary record of the student offender shall so warrant."
Revisions to the Academic Integrity Policy
In line with best practice and in response to changed circumstances, College policies, including the Academic Integrity Policy are subject to periodic review.
Resources for Academic Integrity