S.L. 327.88 Art. 38Prohibitions.

(1) Students shall not:

(a) during any Examination:

(i) introduce or cause to be introduced into the examination venue, any mobile phones, tablets, smart watches (including health and fitness watches/trackers), programmable calculators, laptops or similar equipment, books, dictionaries, notes or any other printed or written matter or any other form of recorded matter, any blank paper or any blank, recording material, any pencil case or similar receptacle, any electronic device for mathematical calculations or any electronic data processor other than those which the examiners have expressly permitted to be taken into that particular Examination and so indicated in the question paper rubric, and any means of communication,provided that students may be allowed by the invigilator to leave their personal belongings, including coats and bags, in a place designated for this purpose at the examination venue, and provided that visiting students who are not registered on a Course leading to an award of this University may request and be granted permission to use a bi-lingual, English / native language dictionary during an Examination; English only dictionaries shall not be allowed;

(ii) allow another person/s to take an examination in their stead or take an examination in lieu of another person (impersonification);

(iii) directly or indirectly give or seek to give assistance to, or seek to obtain or accept assistance from, any other student;

(iv) by any improper means whatever obtain, or seek to obtain, advantage in the examination; give or endeavour to give assistance to other students by having or seeking access to unauthorized information or material, or by copying or attempting to copy from, or by communicating or attempting to communicate with an examiner or any other person during the time appointed for an examination or with an examiner about the examination until the official results are published;

(v) write anywhere other than on the stationery provided by the University;

(vi) write their name on any part of the examination book or make any other mark thereon calculated to disclose their identity to an examiner, except when specifically directed to write their name in a space provided for the purpose;

(vii) remove examination books or parts thereof from the examination venue;

(viii) act in any way as to disturb other students taking an examination, in which case the Registrar or his delegate may order the student to leave the premises where the examination is being held;

(ix) communicate with any other student in an examination venue, prior to, during, or at the end of the examination on any matter or in any way whatsoever;

(x) disobey the directions of the invigilator/s; and

(xi) enter or leave the examination venue without the permission of the examination invigilator as indicated in these regulations;

(b) in any form of assessment:

(i) engage in plagiarism - defined as the unacknowledged use, as one’s own, of work of another person, whether or not such work has been published, and as may be further elaborated in Faculty or University guidelines, provided that in the case of work by two or more students that is substantially identical, plagiarism shall be deemed to have occurred even if the original source remains undetermined;

(ii) submit work or part thereof that has been submitted by the student himself or by any other student, for the assessment of another study-unit, unless, when submitting part of one’s own work that had previously been submitted, prior permission is obtained from the examiner and the insertion is clearly indicated;

(iii) allow another student to submit one’s own work for assessment as the other student’s own work;

(iv) make false declarations in connection with any work submitted for assessment;

(c) in a practicum, clinical placement, field placement, or similar, fail to inform the examiners of one’s own absence or by any means attempt to cover up for one’s own or anyone else’s absence;

(d) in any Assessment, collude with other students to cover one’s own or other students’ breach of these regulations;

(e) in any Assessment, by any means act in any way that may be reasonably considered by the Assessment Disciplinary Board to constitute an act of cheating, or an attempt at cheating or an act intended to assist others to cheat in an Assessment;

(f) submit work which is not truly their own. In such cases, the student shall be called for an oral examination. If during the oral examiniation it is confirmed that there is a serious mismatch between the quality of work submitted and the performance of the student during the oral examination, a report shall be made to the University Assessment Disciplinary Board.

(2) Students shall abide by any other additional instructions as may be applicable to particular examinations due to their specific nature.

(3) Students shall not submit false claims for special arrangements in an assessment intended to gain an unfair advantage.

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