Practice is illegal, says Ministry of Education
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – National Taiwan University (NTU) President-elect Kuan Chung-
NTU President-elect Kuan Chung-ming. (By Central News Agency)
ming (管中閔) has been accused of not reporting several teaching jobs in China in the latest development surrounding the controversial academic.
On January 5, a selection committee chose Kuan, a former National Development Council minister, to head Taiwan’s most prestigious university. However, protests soon arose because Kuan had not reported his position as an independent board member at an affiliate of the Fubon Financial Group, one of whose owners sat on the NTU selection committee.
Accusations also came to light that Kuan might have plagiarized a student’s work for one of his own academic papers, a charge he rebutted. [FULL STORY]
