Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism

This includes plagiarism, collusion, falsification, deceit, cheating and personation. The University takes all reported incidences of academic misconduct seriously and seeks to ensure that they are dealt with efficiently and appropriately.

Information on academic misconduct including the academic misconduct procedure is available here:

www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/staff/discipline/academic-misconduct

Plagiarism

The University takes plagiarism very seriously and is committed to ensuring that so far as possible it is detected and dealt with appropriately.

Plagiarism is the act of copying or including in one’s own work, without adequate acknowledgement, intentionally or unintentionally, the work of another or your own previously assessed original work. At whatever stage of a student’s course, whether discovered before or after graduation, plagiarism will be investigated and dealt with.

Please note that self-plagiarism (that is, submitting the same work for credit twice at the same or different institutions) will also be investigated and is taken very seriously by the University of Edinburgh.

Information of plagiarism including avoiding plagiarism is available here:

www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/staff/discipline/plagiarism