These guidelines have been prepared to assist all those involved in recommending, imposing and reviewing penalties for instances of misconduct, including the Vice-Chancellor, Deans, Faculty Student Conduct Committees, University Student Conduct Committee, and Student Misconduct Appeals Committee.

The information contained in these guidelines may also be useful for academic and administrative staff dealing generally with cases of misconduct, as well as for any student subject to an allegation of misconduct.

The guidelines are structured as follows:

1. Principles

2. Scale of penalties

3. Issues specific to each type of penalty

4. Differential effects of penalties

5. Admissions of wrongdoing/level of contrition of student

6. Intent

7. Start/end dates of penalties

8. Status of student pending appeal outcomes

9. Timing of decisions

10. Records of misconduct on transcripts

Whilst these guidelines provide general parameters for determining penalties, the appropriate penalty for an instance of misconduct ultimately must depend on the facts found in each case, and a body is free to depart from the principles set out in these guidelines where the facts indicate that such a course is appropriate. The appropriate penalty remains at the discretion of the body imposing it given that the circumstances of an instance of misconduct and the student present an almost infinite variety from case to case.

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