The phrase "academic offence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to violations of academic integrity, such as cheating or plagiarism.
Example: "The university has strict policies in place to address any instances of academic offence among its students."
Alternatives: "academic misconduct" or "scholarly violation".
15 students at Exeter University were disciplined for non-academic offences in the last year.
Personal material favours, such as asking to borrow some money or a car, were predominantly reserved for family and friends, similar to the most serious offence in academic cheating – asking someone to use a personal connection with the examiner to arrange a passing exam grade for the respondent.
However, as we explained previously, courts are reluctant to engage with plagiarism cases in Universities and academic fraud is not normally a criminal offence; the student falsely represents the work as his or her own but the immediate gain made by the student is academic credit and not money or property directly.
I'm ordering that book now, although, bizarrely, I see it's distributed by Penguin in Australia, which in India has just bravely pulped all copies of an academic tract on Hinduism for fear of, yes, causing offence.
The Safer Living Foundation (SLF) is a charity formed as a joint venture between senior prison staff at HMP Whatton and academics at Nottingham Trent University's Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit (SOCAMRU).
Other offences on the checklist include their narrow academic outlook and lack of exposure to the "real world" of business.
The authors propose that a new strict liability criminal offence is enacted specifically addressing the supply of academic essays to avoid the need for a prosecutor to establish intention or knowledge as a prerequisite to criminal liability.
Cambridge University is "so desperate to avoid upsetting foreign students", the Telegraph reports, that it has cautioned its academics against automatically shaking their hands in case it causes offence.
In the universities of today, wise academics preface every lecture with trigger warnings, in case something they say should cause offence to the kind of student whose quickness to take offence is the only quick thing about him.
