The Chinese government is reportedly set to announce new rules to significantly curtail the operations of after-school tuition centers, in an effort to reduce skyrocketing academic competition and pressure on Chinese students....
On June 21, former Peking University Law School professor Gong Renren published an essay on the...
After being arrested in 2013 for alleged involvement in an embezzlement scandal, former Renmin...
For Science, Mara Hvistendahl recounts the experiences of theoretical physicist Ulf Leonhardt, who...
The firing of politically active professor Xia Yeliang from Peking University last October sparked...
An official at China’s prestigious Renmin University was recently detained for his alleged...
Zhang Shuguang, a former deputy chief engineer of the now dissolved Ministry of Railways facing 13...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Fake diplomas from domestic and American “universities” continue to stir up trouble in the Chinese job market, despite growing media exposure. Some customers are aware of the fraud but are eager to take the shortcut; others did...
In The Humanist, Sam Geall looks at recent cases of academic or scientific fraud in China, and the “science cops,” such as Fang Zhouzi and Fang Xuanchang, who are trying to keep the facts in check. The article...
Fang Zhouzi, a campaigner against academic and scientific fraud who recently led the campaign to expose alleged fraud by business leader Tang Jun, was apparently attacked outside his home, according to China Daily: Fang Zhouzi,...
Academic corruption has been a hot topic in the media over the past year. The China Law and Politics blog posts an article by lawyer Cao Xinglong looking at the legal aspects of the issue and the failure of the courts to...
The journal Nature has an article about academic pressures and misconduct in China. Only the first paragraph is available without subscription on the Nature website: The latest in a string of high-profile academic fraud cases in...
We’ve read much in the Chinese press about students who email-order theses and professors plagiarizing colleagues. We’ve also read a lot of stories about what companies pay for positive exposure. Cross those two problems and, presto, the pages of many scholarly journals in China today are, apparently, for sale. According to a probe last week […]
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