Academics
Academic integrity, policies and learning resources.
Policy text becomes binding only when the College formally approves it. What follows is the framework being prepared, published openly rather than written to fill a page.
Policy areas in preparation
- Academic integrityAwaiting approval
- AttendanceAwaiting approval
- AssessmentAwaiting approval
- GradingAwaiting approval
- SubmissionAwaiting approval
- Late workAwaiting approval
- AppealsAwaiting approval
- Student conductAwaiting approval
- CompletionAwaiting approval
- Credential issuanceAwaiting approval
Academic integrity
Assessed work must be the learner's own, and sources must be real. The concerns the policy will address:
- Plagiarism and uncredited copying
- Unauthorised collaboration
- Misrepresentation of one's own work or identity
- Fabricated submissions
- Fabricated sources or quotations
- Breach of assessment conditions
Artificial intelligence in study
A full AI-use policy requires academic approval. The College's position is that AI is a study tool to be declared, not a substitute for a learner's own scholarship.
Appropriate use
- Study assistance and explanation of difficult material
- Organising research and notes
- Language support, including between Twi and English
- Brainstorming before a learner writes their own work
Not acceptable
- Submitting generated work as personal scholarship where an assessment prohibits it
- Fabricating sources, references or research
- Fabricating biblical or theological quotations
- Impersonating another person in any assessed activity
Sources and citation
- Biblical references are cited by book, chapter and verse, with the translation named.
- Direct biblical text respects the translation's copyright terms.
- No quotation, source or statistic is used unless it can be checked.
- Reading lists point learners to legitimate sellers and libraries; copyrighted textbooks are never hosted by the College.
Module reading lists are compiled by faculty and will be published here with each approved module.
Digital library
Reading connects directly to the modules that require it. The library holds four kinds of material, and never hosts copyrighted textbooks.
PLC-produced material
Lecture notes, study guides, ministry templates and papers written for the College.
Open-access theological resources
Scholarship published under licences that permit free academic use.
Public-domain works
Historic theological and pastoral texts that are free of copyright restriction.
Approved external links
Links to reputable institutions and journals, held as references rather than copies.
Reading lists and bibliographies
Module reading, pointing participants to works they obtain through legitimate sellers or libraries.