An email sent by Proctors last Friday warning against plagiarism caused confusion for some students who thought it was intended specifically for them.
Students across the University emailed their tutors to ask if they were being disciplined.
One Keble undergraduate concerned by the message said, “The email was a bit worrying.”
“As far as I was aware I hadn’t engaged in any such activity, but I did email my tutor to say what I had received and that since none of the other Keble geography students has received his, ask if he had reported my work to the Proctors.”
Academic registrar Michael Sibly claims he was asked to send the email by previous and current proctors in an attempt to make students aware of the regulations regarding plagiarism.
“Whenever this [plagiarism] becomes an issue students often say that they just didn’t know,” he said.
Sibly admitted that it was “mildly ambiguous” that the message, whic
A man was charged following the sexual assault of a 20 year old woman in Cowley on 10th April.
Mark Edwards, 49, is said to have approached the woman from behind as she was walking along the Cowley Road at around 2am. He is alleged to have threatened her and forced her into the alleyway where he sexually assaulted her. Edwards is due to appear in Oxford Crown Court for a Preliminary Hearing on Friday 18th April. The police were unable to confirm whether the victim was a student.
