handbook

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POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
CODE OF CONDUCT
PURPOSE
This Policy outlines what Careers Australia Group (CAG) expects from students while in
college, or when representing Careers Australia Group. Students are expected to behave
in a considerate, respectful and courteous manner when dealing with staff, other students,
clients and members of the general public so that learning and teaching can take place freely,
safely and without interference due to the misconduct of others. Students are expected to
respect the property of CAG, their fellow student’s and staff. All students are to maintain high
standards of academic honesty and integrity to maintain equality and validity of their work.
STUDENT MISCONDUCT
Academic misconduct is defined as:
Attempts to cheat, plagiarise or otherwise act dishonestly in undertaking an assessment task,
or assisting other students to do so. Students are considered guilty of cheating if they seek
to gain advantage by unfair means; such as copying another students’ work, or in any way
mislead a Trainer or Educator about their knowledge, ability, or the amount of original work
they have done.
For international students, not maintaining at least 80% attendance of the scheduled course
contact hours during each study period is classified as Academic Misconduct. (Note: For
Diploma of Nursing students, clinical skills lab is 100% compulsory attendance.)
Plagiarism is defined as:
The act or instance of plagiarising. Submitting part or the whole of someone else’s work or
ideas and passing it off as one’s own or without proper referencing of the original writer.
Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to the following:
• the submission of work, either in part or in whole completed by another
• failure to give credit for ideas, statements, facts or conclusions which rightfully belong
to another
• failure to use quotation marks (or other means of setting apart) when quoting directly from
another, whether it be a paragraph, a sentence, or even a part thereof
• paraphrasing of another’s writing without credit or originality
• use of another’s project or programs or part thereof without giving credit
Cheating is defined as:
Cheating includes, but is not limited to: plagiarism, allowing someone to hand in your work
as his or her own, several people writing an assignment and handing in multiple copies
all represented implicitly or explicitly as individual work, acts of dishonesty, copying from
another’s exam or assignment, discussion of answers or questions at any time in an exam
or assessment (unless such discussion is specifically authorised by the Trainer or Educator),
taking or receiving copies of an assessment or the assessment benchmarks without the
permission of CAG, using or displaying notes or other information devices inappropriate to
the prescribed exam conditions, allowing someone another person to complete an exam or
assessment on behalf of the student, and obtaining or attempting to obtain (including aiding
another to obtain) credit for work or any improvement in evaluation of performance by any
immoral or dishonest means.
Domestic Student Handbook March 2014
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