Rights and responsibilities

Safety

All students should feel that the work environment is adapted to them and their needs. At Malmö University, we work to provide a good learning environment and to prevent and minimise risks of ill-health among students. The head of department is the highest manager at each department and is responsible for the students' work environment and safety at the department.

If you have any comments, complaints or suggestions for improving the work environment for students, you are welcome to contact the head of the department you are studying at (at OD, please contact the vice dean). You can also contact the student union representatives (studentombud), who are involved in the University's work environment efforts.

Grade review

A grading decision cannot be appealed. However, a grading decision can be corrected if there has been a clerical error or similar, or if the grading decision is clearly incorrect due to new circumstances (regulated by the Administrative Procedure Act and the Higher Education Ordinance).

The faculties have their own procedures for reviewing and correcting grades. In the first instance, you should always contact your teacher to request a review or correction.

Plagiarism and cheating

Plagiarism is when a student uses the content of someone else's work and passes it off as their own. This can be through textual similarity, structural similarity or similarity of ideas. Even if you are using your own words to describe an author's thoughts and conclusions, you must cite the source.

The following normally raises reasonable suspicion of plagiarism:

• Describing/explaining someone else's idea/text in your own words without citing the source.
• Verbatim transcription without quotation marks (with or without reference to the source).
• Writing text, with or without reference to the source, that is too similar to the original to be considered independently formulated.

Measures in case of detected plagiarism and cheating

The disciplinary consequences for students caught plagiarising or cheating can be severe, resulting in a warning or suspension.

Alcohol, drugs and doping

Malmö University aims to provide a study environment that is free from alcohol, drugs, and doping substances. Additionally, support is offered to students who need help with alcohol- and drug-related issues.

Student Health Services

Quality education 

Education at Malmö University should be of a high standard. Quality assurance – that is, various methods to ensure that our education is of a high quality – is a collective effort to be undertaken by the University’s staff and students together. Students have a statutory right to influence their education and are expected to take an active part in developing it. This is done, for example, through course evaluations and representation in advisory, preparatory, and decision-making bodies. Course evaluations are compiled into course reports which are published on the course page at mau.se.

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Quality assurance at the University

Complaint procedure

If you have a complaint about the rights and responsibilities of students at Malmö University, your case can be reviewed. The basic principle is that student complaints within a faculty should be resolved by the respective faculty or department. Students with a complaint should first contact the relevant teacher to have the matter investigated. The Student Union Malmö has student representatives (studentombud) who can also provide support and help, regardless of whether you are a member of the Student Union.

Governance documents and guidelines