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Academic Skills in Nursing and Midwifery: What is Academic Integrity?

Academic integrity at ECU is guided by the following principles:
• Academic integrity is fundamental to learning, teaching, scholarship and research at the
University.
• Academic integrity involves the ongoing fostering of a complex network of strategies and
responsibilities across the University community.
• The University is committed to providing an educational approach to academic integrity,
recognising that students need to be supported to develop and demonstrate academic
skills.
• Academic integrity allows students and staff the freedom to build new ideas,
scholarship, knowledge and creative works while respecting and acknowledging the
work of others.