AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into allegations of “cheating” at the University of Huddersfield.

The inquiry follows complaints by a student who alleged a colleague had cheated during the final year of their studies at the Queensgate-based university campus.

The university was contacted after an email was received by the Examiner making allegations about the third year science student.

The student alleged her classmate had downloaded results from the internet and falsified other results, rather than attending laboratory sessions which had been allocated to her for her final year dissertation.

She said when results were announced last week, the student had received a good degree classification which would allow her to continue to study at a higher level at another institution.

“I know that I personally, and many others, feel that if she has been able to obtain a good degree when she has not put in the work and is understood to have cheated, this cheapens and devalues our own degrees for which we have worked incredibly hard and made great efforts to accomplish,” said the student.

“I just feel that this is unfair to those who have worked hard for the last four or five years for their degrees.”

A spokesman from the university said: “We take matters of cheating or plagiarism very seriously and investigations where the student is found to be guilty can result in them being excluded from their course.