Fraud

When a case of fraud is found, it can have (serious) repercussions for your education.

From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please check:
Course and Examination Regulations - Additional Rules and Regulations, section 17

SECTION 18 – ACADEMIC FRAUD

1) In the event of academic fraud in a course component or examination, the Board of Examiners or the lecturer responsible can exclude the student from further participation of the said course component or examination.

2) If it can be established that an examination, thesis, ‘take-home’ examination, research report, essay or such like, or any part thereof, has not been produced by the student, and yet he or she has presented the work for marking claiming to be the author, this may be considered to be fraud, which may result in course failure, or exclusion from the examination or course component in question.

3) Copyright law applies to exam assignments. This means that it is not permitted to take home, copy, either wholly or in part, or in any other way reproduce or transfer examination questions without the express permission of the responsible lecturers, and that violation of this provision, i.e. infringement of the copyright on exam questions, will be dealt with in the same manner as academic fraud.

4) The lecturer responsible will immediately inform the Board of Examiners of any measures taken pursuant to subsections 6.1 to 6.3.

5) Fraud established by a lecturer must be presented to the Board of Examiners, preferably with evidence of the fraud.

6) If the Board of Examiners judges that exclusion of the student from the course component or examination was justified, then the student can be excluded from further participation of the course component or examination in question for a period of time to be decided upon by the Board of Examiners. This exclusion period may be up to a maximum of one year after the fraud has been established. In the event of fraud, the Board of Examiners may decide to request the competent authorities to take appropriate action.