Academic policies and procedures

• Education and Examination Regulations 2024-2025 (pdf)
• Education and Examination Regulations 2023-2024 (pdf)

Regulations for the Board of Examiners

The LEG faculty has an academic integrity counsellor. You can contact this counsellor for questions about conducting and assessing honest, concise, transparent and independent research. For questions about collaborating with integrity and transparency with (fellow) researchers and (fellow) students, you can also contact this counsellor. You can send Inge Claringbould an email to make an appointment: i.e.c.claringbould@uu.nl.

Students who are supervised by Inge Claringbould can choose to contact Sebastiaan Princen, USG’s integrity counsellor, for integrity related questions: S.B.M.Princen@uu.nl.

Here you can find the guidelines concerning referencing literature during your degree programme.

Sets out all the rights and duties of students and the University. Download the Students' charter.

Utrecht University considers any form of academic dishonesty to be a very serious offense. Utrecht University expects each student to be familiar with and to observe the norms and values that ensure academic integrity.The most serious forms of deception that can impair this integrity are fraud and plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of fraud and is defined as the wrongful appropriation of another author’s work without proper citation. See the further elaboration on what may be considered fraud or plagiarism.

If the university discovers a case of fraud or plagiarism, then the study programme’s Board of Examiners may implement sanctions on the offender. The most serious sanction that the Board of Examiners may implement is the submission of a request for expulsion to the Executive Board.

If you feel you have not been treated properly by someone employed by Utrecht University, or if you disagree with a decision that affects you personally, you can respond in a number of ways. You can submit a complaint, an objection or an appeal.

For the full details about the various procedures and which procedure is applicable for your situation, visit Complaints, objections and appeals.

Utrecht University processes a substantial volume of personal data. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the university is responsible for ensuring that personal data is processed properly. Also see the Privacy Statement on the Utrecht University website.

When writing a thesis, you are dealing with Research Data Management. This means you have to be careful with the (personal) data you collect, for example when you conduct interviews. In that case you are dealing with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), causing you to need to secure your data properly at all times. It is therefore important that you know what you have to comply with in terms of legislation and university frameworks before you start writing your thesis. Your thesis supervisor can help you with this and you can ask them for the guidelines. More information can be found on this page or in this handbook.