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  • Newspaper

    University sacks prof who was 3 times a fake

    China

    Press

    Xu Chi - Shanghai Daily

    A Chinese Professor has been fired by his university and disqualified from China's Recruitment Program of Global Experts for copying his resume and academic articles from three other academics with the same name. The 39 year-old professor with the Beijing University of Chemical Technology has admitted falsifying his educational background, work experience and published articles by copying the details from overseas professors.

  • Newspaper

    Online bank to check plagiarism may not be enough

    India

    Press

    Alya Mishra - University World News

    In an effort to control increasing cases of plagiarism and low quality research, the All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE, is to launch Project Factory – an online repository aimed at capturing abstracts of all postgraduate projects.

  • Newspaper

    Academic corruption undermining higher education: Yau Shing-tung

    China

    Press

    Guo Jiaxue - China Daily

    Even in the country's best universities, plagiarism and falsified data are preventing the country from developing advanced science, says a world-renowned mathematics professor.

  • Newspaper

    Rampant cheating hurts research ambitions

    China

    Press

    Gillian Wong - Associated Press

    When professors need to author research papers to get promoted, many turn to Ghost Writers, writes Gillian Wong for Associated Press.

  • Newspaper

    Fake papers are rife at universities

    China

    Press

    - University World News

    Strong demand for ghost-written academic papers in the lead-up to university graduation and revelations that people pay to have scholarly articles published are worrying critics who fear the billion-yen industry is making it harder than ever to evaluate graduates' abilities.

  • Newspaper

    Plagiarism crisis taints two incoming legislators, rocks government

    Korea R

    Press

    Han-Suk Kim - University World News

    Students and professors at South Korea's Kookmin University, the center of a plagiarism scandal involving two recently elected legislators, have joined opposition politicians in demanding that the lawmakers give up their seats after being found to have copied material for their doctoral dissertations.

  • Newspaper

    China vs. America – Quality, plagiarism and propaganda

    China, USA

    Press

    John Richard Schrock - University World News

    In this article, Dr John Richard Schrock, who teaches at Emporia State University in Kansas, explains the vast differences between research, citation and teaching styles in Chinese and American university students, citing cultural and education gaps for instances of plagiarism.

  • Newspaper

    Education minister resigns over research fraud scandal

    Taiwan China

    Press

    Mimi , Yojana Leung , Sharma - University News

    Taiwan's Education Minister resigned on Monday 14 July over his links to a researcher whose papers were retracted from an international scientific journal because of alleged fraud.

  • Newspaper

    Plagiarism controversy raises questions over academic integrity

    Thailand

    Press

    Suluck Lamubol - University World News

    Controversy over plagiarism in the PhD thesis of the director of Thailand's National Innovation Agency, or NIA, has highlighted concerns over academic integrity and a widespread culture of plagiarism. Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University revoked the PhD – for the first time in the institution's history.

  • Newspaper

    Regulation on academic fraud hopes to reduce plagiarism

    China

    Press

    Yojana Sharma - China Daily

    A new Ministry of Education regulation to punish academic fraud has come into effect to clamp down on plagiarism and fabricating research data, as well as buying, selling or organizing trade in academic degree theses, including all forms of "ghostwriting" or buying of materials produced by essay mills.

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