The China Post
Date: November 22, 2016
By: Kuan-lin Liu
National Taiwan University’s labor union and graduate student association published a petition Sunday
National Taiwan University President Yang Pan-chyr (楊泮池), center, speaks to reporters at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee in Taipei on Monday, Nov. 21. Yang was at the meeting to answer questions concerning academic fraud allegations against him and other researchers at the top-tier school. (CNA)
demanding that allegations of academic fraud by faculty be investigated by an independent committee.
This petition came after a press conference held by NTU President Yang Pan-chyr (楊泮池) on Saturday, during which he responded to allegations NTU faculty had committed academic fraud by saying that graduate students would be required to take an academic ethics class in the future.
Immediately following the press conference, NTU Labor Union Secretary General Tseng Chih-hua (曾稚驊) responded to Yang’s comments, saying the president was using “technical issues” as a cover-up for political ones in academia.
Tseng said the demands placed on academics to produce scholarly articles had created a breeding ground for academic fraud.
Professors throw their graduate students under the bus at the first sign of trouble and blame them for not paying more attention in their research, he said. [FULL STORY]
