(Archive) Results withheld/ deferred

@ Kumar, not necessarily, provided you were not involved in the plagiarsm activity, the cement industry is pretty popular in Pakistan and there are several submissions on the same company each year.

well it seems like issues take long to be resolved.The students have to bear with such a hellish wait to know their fate.it must equally be hard for the markers looking at all those scripts from arund the world.Do they even check if the quoted companies exist???Highly unikely.just my thoughts.Choice of company just doesn”t matter would be my conclusion.Submittimg in may and keeping fingers crossed

That was the email i received

Dear student,

We regret the need to hold your BSc result for investigation. This process has been completed in your case, but has taken longer than expected due to the very large number of cases that the Academic Conduct Officers have had to handle.

We have now been advised that your project has been fully and carefully reviewed and that the Academic Conduct Officer has agreed that your project should be passed. Your e-copy letters are now visible on-line.

The formal paperwork, including your official transcript will be sent by Royal Mail shortly

Congrats guys 🙂 .. i m happy for u…. atleast we ve not heard a fail 🙂

@Sarah Congrts……

@Sandy congratulations. Others please keep updated the forum. Thanks

I have received an email. They have mentioned that my RAP had similarities to other RAPs. This is insane considering my RAP was my writing all through. Yes a few articles can match someone else’s because they are all over the net! Also they want me to show them a draft as in how i went about the whole project which i am pretty sure i can do.Also they want me to show them the articles that i have used in the rap. I don’t get it what the harvard referencing i did ,was all about!Was it no good?! If there’s any help anyone can do, any other detail i might mention,ill highly appreciate.

Forensic science is the scientific method of gathering and examining information about the past.Art forensics concerns the art authentication cases to help research the work’s authenticity. Art authentication methods are used to detect and identify forgery, faking and copying of art works, e.g. paintings. (Wikipedia)

@afsana744 – please see my article on the ACO on our home page.

@Adeel – the University Misconduct Committee is the next stage after the ACO. What this means is that the ACO head officer is satisfied that there were irregularities in a submission and/or there is evidence of a student attempting to gain the degree by deceit I.e. the student has a case to answer.

The hearing mentioned will be formal tribunal style proceedings like a court I believe. Senior experienced academics and lawyers listen to the evidence and like a jury will come to a decision purely based on the evidence. I have never had personal experience of the OBU UMC but once appeared as an expert witness at a similar hearing when I was an exam marker for a professional body and I and other markers had uncovered evidence of collusion at an exam centre. I was required to produce a witness statement with technical legal assistance by the body’s lawyers and was cross-examined at the hearing. The students on this occasion declined to attend but were represented by a lawyer. I was never informed of the outcome as I was just a witness.

You may need legal help as you will need to produce your evidence and a witness statement as well as you can to balance the evidence the ACO will be putting forward. You should I believe under normal legal rules have access to the evidence they will be relying on but this is normally exchanged simultaneously with yours a week or two before the actual hearing.

@adeel – you should defend yourself or use a friend or lawyer to do so as if you do nothing the UCM will only have the ACO evidence and are therefore likely to find against you. You will need to set out your evidence explaining exactly how you did your work. As you will have had some indication of the ACO claims you need to address those points by answering them and attempt to show they are unfounded. As I mentioned previously you would normally be provided with copies of documents and any witness statements that the ACO will be presenting as evidence a week or so before the actual hearing. Pay particular attention to all the details they give you about the hearing and if you cannot attend in person then make yourself and / or any legal representative you are using available by Skype.