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 ====Foundation Course: Student Handbook==== ====Foundation Course: Student Handbook====
- +//**<color #009bc1>Updated October 2024</color>**//
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 =====Introduction===== =====Introduction=====
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 ====== Quality Assurance ====== ====== Quality Assurance ======
  
-Heartwood is committed to developing and maintaining quality assurance policies and procedures.\\ +**Academic Integrity** 
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 +Heartwood Education has a responsibility to promote academic integrity as well as to identify and penalise academic misconduct including plagiarism. Academic integrity is a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage. Heartwood and our tutors are committed to these values, and we ask the same of students. This is an important part of an individual’s and an institution’s reputation. Academic integrity is a positive and ethical approach to learning. It is not an offence to draw upon the work or ideas of another person where this is appropriately acknowledged. In fact, this is essential in developing good academic work.  
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 +Academic misconduct is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to formal academic work and includes the following: 
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 +* Plagiarism: The use, within assessments, of others’ ideas or words of another without acknowledgement\\ 
 +* Artificial Intelligence (AI): The use of generative AI in your assessments\\ 
 +* Contract cheating: the practice of students engaging a third-party individual or service to undertake their assessments\\ 
 +* Falsification: The presentation of fictitious or distorted data, evidence, references\\ 
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 +The following is a list, ranked in order of severity, of unoriginal work, adapted from Turnitin (the main tool used in marking Professional Course assignments to alert tutors to possible abuse of academic integrity): 
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 +1.  Submitting someone else’s work, word for word, as one’s own.\\ 
 +2. Containing significant portions of text from a single source, without alterations.\\ 
 +3. Finding and replacing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of sources.\\ 
 +4. Mixing paraphrased material from multiple sources.\\ 
 +5. Combining perfectly cited sources with copied pages without citation.\\ 
 +6. Copied material from multiple sources, made to fit together.\\ 
 +7. Citing non-existent sources or including inaccurate information, including proper citation of sources but containing almost no original work.\\ 
 +8. Including proper citation but relying too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure.\\ 
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 +None of the above are acceptable in your assessments on the Foundation Course.  
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 +**Generative AI** 
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 +There is much interest in and growing use of generative AI tools, especially ChatGPT, but also Google Bard, DALLE-2 and CoPilot. Generative AI is an AI technology that automatically generates content in response to written prompts. As these tools are developing rapidly and we are in the process of understanding their implications for education and assessment, we expect that students will avoid the use of such software in generating content for any of their submitted work.   
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 +**Implications of academic misconduct for progression to the Professional Course** 
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 +If a student’s monograph is suspected to have involved plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, we reserve the right to submit the work to plagiarism software, which will store the work securely, and mark the work minus the plagiarised content, which could bring the grade below the 60% needed to progress to the Professional Course. If the results point towards academic misconduct, this may also affect the student’s progression to the Professional Course. We will discuss the results with the student, with the aim being to promote academic integrity and reflection. 
  
  
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 Any user who, for whatever reason, comes to know the password of any other user must not attempt to obtain access to the Learning Management System using that password nor disclose it to any other person. Use of a password by anyone other than the authorised person will be treated as serious misconduct.\\ Any user who, for whatever reason, comes to know the password of any other user must not attempt to obtain access to the Learning Management System using that password nor disclose it to any other person. Use of a password by anyone other than the authorised person will be treated as serious misconduct.\\
  
-All reasonable efforts will be employed to ensure that Learning Management System will be made accessible to all learners, regardless of disability, who have a legitimate reason for using them. Heartwood seeks to explore the potential of information technology to assist disabled students to engage in their chosen course of studies and, in particular, to carry out any associated course requirements and academic tasks, so far as resources allow.+All reasonable efforts will be employed to ensure that Learning Management System will be made accessible to all learners, regardless of disability, who have a legitimate reason for using them. 
  
 ===== Penalties ===== ===== Penalties =====
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 The course remains available in its current form to learners for 6 weeks after the initial 12 month study period. The course remains available in its current form to learners for 6 weeks after the initial 12 month study period.
-  * Some activities have deadlines, and you are advised to check submission dates in advance as most are only open during the 12 months.+  * Some activities have deadlines, and you are advised to check submission dates in advance.
   * At the close of the course, students will have access to an archived version free of charge for one year.   * At the close of the course, students will have access to an archived version free of charge for one year.
   * That version will not contain interactive features such as glossaries, webinars or forums. It will include all the videos, slides, documents, pages and e-book material you would need to use for reference.   * That version will not contain interactive features such as glossaries, webinars or forums. It will include all the videos, slides, documents, pages and e-book material you would need to use for reference.
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 By accessing the Foundation Course Welcome page you are confirming that you have read and understood this document in its entirety, and that you agree expressly to abide by all the regulations and policies it contains for the duration of your studies with us. By accessing the Foundation Course Welcome page you are confirming that you have read and understood this document in its entirety, and that you agree expressly to abide by all the regulations and policies it contains for the duration of your studies with us.
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 +======Using Herbs in Pregnancy and during Breast-feeding======
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 +As you are beginning to taste herbs on this course, some of them for the first time, we would like to say a little about the use of herbs in pregnancy.  
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 +There are many herbs that are completely gentle and safe to use in pregnancy in the form of teas, far too many to list here.  Google will come up with many over-cautious lists so it is better to look at some of the herbal textbooks you may be acquiring as the course develops (some of which have lists of herbs to avoid in pregnancy).  
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 +With the exception of one, all the herbs studied on the course are safe to use during pregnancy and whilst breast-feeding.  The one that we would suggest you refrain from (which is included in the tea samples you may have bought for the course) is **Yarrow, which is best to avoid in pregnancy.**
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 +Here is some extra guidance you may find helpful.  Women often respond to lower doses of herbs in pregnancy, perhaps because their organs and circulation are all enhanced to manage the extra demands of having another system to support.  We feel it’s fine to use alcohol tinctures in small doses but teas are lovely and provide the extra fluids needed. With any herb **listen to your body first**: smell the herb and roll a sip round your mouth to see if you like it and then, if so, drink in small quantities to see how your body responds.  **If you instinctively feel it is not right for you, then try something else.**
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 +It’s always good with herbs to start with one and develop a personal understanding of how it works for you.  For digestion you could try chamomile, fennel, lemon balm or peppermint for starters. Ginger tea is quite safe to use during the first trimester. Try boiling a piece of crushed fresh ginger.  It works well for indigestion, nausea and bloating and you can also just have ginger juice (just a teaspoonful) although it may taste quite strong.
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 +During the subsequent 6 months of a pregnancy, most things can be treated (eg pre-existing conditions, heartburn etc) but ideally under guidance of a herbalist. Many women opt to drink raspberry leaf tea in the last few months of a pregnancy which has a long tradition of being used safely as a uterine tonic.  For women who feel confident enough to self-medicate there are several herbals written specifically to guide you through, for example:
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 +The Herbal for Mother and Child by Anne McIntyre\\
 +The Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Jill Romm\\
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 +Lastly, for those of you that are interested in this topic, there is a recording of a lovely webinar delivered to FC students in 2024 on the topic of pregnancy from herbalist and midwife Rosemary Umolu.  You will find this under the link "FC Information": https://heartwood-uk.net/lms/course/view.php?id=121
  
 ===== UNIT 1: The History, Scope and Philosophy of Plant-Based Medicine ===== ===== UNIT 1: The History, Scope and Philosophy of Plant-Based Medicine =====