The School should implement a uniform plagiarism policy of a 0 FL for any
recipient of a copied assignment and a penalty of loss of all marks for
the assignment for any originator. The mark 0 FL should only be used for
this purpose.

The School should implement a central database of persons penalised in either
of these ways, which would record details of course, session, lecturer,
originator and recipient, and copies of the original and copied programs
with notes on the similarities. Multiple offences could then in many cases be
referred to the Deputy Registrar for exclusion. Students would have to have
access to their own record (if any) in such a database, on request, and a
right to have their name removed if on review the evidence was found to be 
wanting.

[The intention, not recorded in the minutes, was that access to this database
would be controlled in such a way that a staff member would only be able to
access the database
1 when *reporting* a new penalty - so that previous penalties
  could not be taken into account in determining guilt in a current case.
2 when proposing to employ a person as a casual tutor - in practice this
  would be best implemented by an automated culling of casual tutoring
  applications - the applicant would be sent a message explaining that
  they could not be employed as a casual tutor in the School because of
  their 0 FL in <course code>.

Note that the process alluded to in (1) would be compromised by the
availability of student grades on the web to authorised staff.]

The School should investigate and if possible implement adding plagiarism
detection support to sms, so that a lecturer could send off all assignments
to one of a set of supported plagiarism detectors with a few mouse-clicks.

That lab exams should be held, where possible, and used as hurdles to prevent 
people without appropriate programming skills from passing courses.
Where this was not possible, examination questions should be included that 
tested understanding of assignment material.

That a person who has received a mark of 0 FL in a COMP course will not be
employed by the School as a casual tutor.

That the School should establish a plagiarism working group, including 
interested
staff, postgraduate students, and COMPSOC representation, to try to ensure that
the plagiarism detection methods in use in the School are as strong as 
possible."