Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is the moral code of academia.
All ATU staff & students are responsible for maintaining academic integrity.

Academic Integrity is also known as Academic Misconduct or Academic Dishonesty.

• Academic integrity means you must have honesty, responsibility and fairness in your studies and acknowledge the work of others by giving credit where you have used other’s work.
• Academic integrity means that ATU staff, in their teaching and students, in their learning, are expected to treat others with respect - fairly and honestly at all times. Abusing, being deceitful or stealing work from others is not acceptable.
• Academic integrity is important because it is the principal merit on which the colleges' learning, teaching and research accomplishments are fostered.
• Academic Integrity is about conducting research, writing, and teaching with integrity and honesty.

ATU aim to foster and maintain a culture of honesty and academic integrity.

"All staff and students have an obligation to act in an ethical manner, consistent with the requirements of academic integrity"
(ATU Galway-Mayo Policy on Plagiarism, p.2).

If there is a breach of code of conduct with respect to academic integrity the college may take disciplinary action.