Examination offences include (but are not restricted to):
- Introduction into the examination room of any materials other than those permitted for the examination;
- Removal of any examination script, any part of an examination script or blank examination stationery from the examination room except by a person with designated authority to do so;
- Any attempt to confer with or gain access to the script of any other student during the period of the examination; or to collaborate in or gain access to the assessed coursework of any other student, unless authorised to do so;
- Any attempt to tamper with examination scripts or coursework after they have been handed in by students;
- Any unauthorised study and/or unsupervised absence of a student from the examination room during the period of the examination;
- Impersonation or attempted impersonation of a student, including aiding and abetting someone to do so; both the student who is impersonated and the impersonator are liable to be punished.
- Incidences of plagiarism, which is defined as the presentation of another person’s thoughts or words or work (including figures, diagrams, formulae and computer programs) as though they were a student’s own.
- Contract cheating including the purchase of essays and other material from other sources.
- Fabrication of data
- Other conduct likely to give an unfair advantage to the student.