CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES: RULES OF COMBINATION

CANCELLATIONS OF LECTURES AND TESTS

OW will avoid cancellations of lectures at all costs. However, should an ineludible situation arise where there is a need to cancel a lecture (emergency, medical or legal reasons), the lecturer will communicate the same to the Academic Head, relevant Head of School and Registrar: Student Administration & Support at the earliest convenience via email or telephone. On approval, OW will notify students via the Google Classroom platforms, and Student Liaison will notify students via the Learning Management System (LMS). All cancelled lectures will be presented during an alternative time as soon as possible. Please note, OW reserves the right to cancel a lecture/academic event due to situations that may be outside of the control of the institution.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the submission of an item of assessment containing elements of work produced by another person(s) in such a way that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the student’s own. Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such as a book, report, journal or material available on the internet. Plagiarism is illegal. It may be regarded as a criminal offence in terms of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978. Lecturers have the right to judge and penalise all cases where plagiarism is committed and a student who is guilty of the infringement of copyright or unethical practice will be subject to the applicable disciplinary code. Please refer to OW’s Policy and Procedure on Plagiarism for further information.

No submissions will be accepted / marked if the signed plagiarism form is not included in the submission. Please retrieve the form here: OW Plagiarism Form

PRESCRIBED LEARNING MATERIAL

The OW does not utilise prescribed text books. All prescribed reading material that forms part of the course content is available to the student, either through the library wherein the student will need to find and select the material from our collections, or via our electronic resources available to the students. Students are encouraged to supplement prescribed learning material with further research that they conduct. Prescribed learning material at OW is not limited to written books, and includes all texts (images, films, podcasts, video essays, peer reviewed journals, tutorials, etc.).