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  • The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS): an introduction

    The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS) is modeled after the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). The purpose of AIRS is to: - identify...

    International Center for Academic Integrity

    2012

  • Newspaper

    Dean may face data fraud charges

    Netherlands

    Press

    Jan Petter Myklebust - University World News

    A Tilburg University inquiry has recommended that details of forgery of documents and fraud committed by a leading social psychologist should be passed to the Dutch public prosecution service.

  • Newspaper

    Peshawar University VC found involved in plagiarism

    Pakistan

    Press

    Noor Aftab - The News

    University of Peshawar's Vice Chancellor has been found involved in plagiarism by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) that was constituted to probe into the matter.

  • Newspaper

    Another minister faces plagiarism claims

    Germany

    Press

    Michael Gardner - University World News

    Yet another senior German politician is the focus of questions about his doctoral thesis. Lower Saxony's Minister of Cultural Affairs is alleged to have quoted incorrectly several sources in his dissertation, creating the impression that he originated more of the content than was actually the case.

  • Newspaper

    Plagiarism MEP loses second post

    Germany

    Press

    Michael Gardner - University World News

    A member of the European Parliament has bowed to pressure from Germany's major higher education and research organisations and stepped down from her new post in the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, following plagiarism accusations.

  • Newspaper

    Leighton Andrews: University of Wales 'let Wales down'

    UK

    Press

    Ciaran Jenkins - BBC News

    An Education Minister says the University of Wales has let down higher education in Wales and brought the nation "into disrepute". His criticism comes after a watchdog's report told the university to review its worldwide college links, which include in particular a college in Bangkok said to be operating illegally.

  • Newspaper

    The whiff of plagiarism again hits German elite

    Germany

    Press

    Christopher F. Schuetze - New York Times

    Weeks after Germany's defense minister was forced to resign in a plagiarism scandal, three German universities say they are investigating similar complaints about the academic work of three figures from the country's political sphere.

  • Newspaper

    Plagiarising academic loses job twice

    Australia, South Africa

    Press

    Geoff Maslen - University World News

    A senior African academic has lost his job for the second time after an Australian university that appointed him in January belatedly discovered he had been forced to quit his South African post the previous November following charges of serial plagiarism.

  • Newspaper

    Brain scientist accused of scientific fraud

    Denmark

    Press

    Petter Myklebust - University World News

    Denmark has been rocked by a science fraud case involving a high-profile professor of medicine specialising in brain research. The case has also embroiled the rector of Copenhagen University, the previous minister of science and a number of co-authors, and has undermined the public view of science.

  • Diploma and accreditation mills: new trends in credential abuse

    This report investigates the new generation of bogus universities, taking a closer look at the involvement of bogus colleges in immigration scams and the phenomenon of online high school diploma mills. It also looks back at the year's developments in...

    Ben Cohen, Eyal, Winch, Rachel

    Bedford, 2011

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