Academic misconduct

Regulations

An exam/test is an investigation of knowledge, skills and insight of a student. A student has to deliver only his own and original work. If not, it will be considered as draud of plagiarism. Also free-riding behaviour, that is benefiting from other people's efforts in groups (assignments) while not putting in the same effort as the other group members, can be considered as academic misconduct.

When an examiner detects academic misconduct in or during a test or assignment the examiner has to report this to the examination board. The board will investigate the case and determine if and what sanction will be applied.

Here you can consult:
a decision tree for preventing academic misconduct and (in case of doubt of academic misconduct) reporting academic misconduct cases

- The academic misconduct prevention guidelines

Procedure

If an examiner or invigilator notices motivated suspicion of academic misconduct before, during or after an exam, the examiner/invigilator makes a note of this on the student’s exam (test). The examiner/invigilator also notes the circumstances surrounding the irregularity and fills out the Notification of misconduct/ irregularities during an exam. This notification is submitted to (the registry) of the Examination Board BMS.

If an examiner notices a motivated suspicion of plagiarism the examiner will fill out the Notification of Plagiarism and submits this notification to the Registry of the examination board BMS. The examiner should inform the board on which parts are plagiarised and should inform the student(s) on the plagisrism detected (specify) and that a notification was sent to the examination board.

Types of academic misconduct

Notification forms