The following principles, procedures and regulations shall apply when a student of Mahidol University is accused of committing academic fraud in a thesis/thematic paper.

By virtue of section 47.2 of Academic Regulations of Graduate Studies, B.E. 2549 (2006), the principles and the procedures concerning student commission of academic fraud in a thesis/thematic paper have been established as follows:

"Mahidol Announcement, Subject - Principles and procedures concerning students who commit academic fraud in theses/thematic papers B.E.2549(2006), enacted on the 23th June B.E. 2549 (2006) is annulled."

In this announcement:

means faculty, college, institute, center, or university unit which is equivalent to a faculty, attached to Mahidol University

means faculty dean, or director of college, institute, center or university unit which is equivalent to a faculty

means a graduate level student enrolled at Mahidol University

means the committee which is responsible for consideration of academic fraud in a thesis/thematic paper

fraud in thesis/thematic paper"  means to seek to gain benefits without the sanction of any legal procedure, regulation, announcement or order of the university for oneself or others in a thesis/thematic paper by plagiarizing, infringing copyright, hiring someone or agreeing to be hired to work on a thesis/thematic paper or letting other people do the thesis/thematic paper instead of oneself, or doing anything similar to the above.

agreed to be hired to work on a thesis/thematic paper"  means to hire someone or agreed to be hired by someone to work on an important stage of work on a thesis/thematic paper.

instead"  means to let other people produce an important stage of work on a thesis/thematic paper.

Important stages of work on a thesis/thematic paper includes the following:

A student must do these important stages by himself or herself. If any student is unable to complete any other stage on his or her own, he or she must ask permission from the Chair of the Thesis/Thematic Paper Committee to receive help on that stage.

If any person credibly accuses in writing a student of committing academic fraud in a thesis/thematic paper, the President of Mahidol University will appoint a Committee composed of:

The Committee has authority as follows:

For verification following section 5, the Committee must give an opportunity to the student who is accused to explain the situation and present evidence in his or her own defense.

The Committee must complete its verification within 60 days after the date that the Chairman learned of the order appointing the Committee.

In the case that the Committee cannot complete verification in that time, the Committee can ask to extend the allowed time by not more than 30 days.

When the Committee finishes the process of verification, the Committee will propose to the University the following penalties for consideration:

The Committee has to inform the student of the result of the verification in writing within 7 days of the Committee completing its verification.

A student penalized for misconduct will be informed by the University in writing, and the University will inform the student of his/her rights, and the specific time for appeal.

When ordering any student to be penalized, the Committee has to immediately inform the father, mother or guardian of that student and his/her advisor.

A student who has been penalized has the right to appeal within 7 days of the date that he or she learns that a penalty has been ordered.

Methods of appeal must follow Mahidol University Regulations on Student Disciplines.

The President is the person who is responsible for seeing that the regulations in the announcement are observed. In the case of any problems or disputes about the observation of these regulations, the President has the authority to take whatever action he/she sees fit.