The results of the second phase of the Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project (AMBeR) show that while HEIs vary in their application of plagiarism policies, there are ‘clusters of consensus’ within groups of universities.
The research, the first of its kind in the UK, was conducted by the Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service (AJAIS), and aims to benchmark current policy and practice in UK higher education with regard to the methods used to manage student plagiarism.
While all universities were found to manage the issue of student plagiarism on an individual basis, the research showed the most common ways of dealing with the issue were the resubmission of assessments, where the resulting mark would be capped and a formal warning given. Over 50 per cent of the recorded instances of plagiarism were dealt with in one of these ways.
Source: JISC
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