Academic fraud is nothing new - leaders in Germany, Russia, Romania have been accused of falsifying their academic qualification, George Mason ...
VIRGINIA: A recent college admissions scandal in the United States, which revealed that wealthy parents had bribed officials at elite universities, exposed the price some people are willing to pay to say: “I went to an Ivy League school.”
He was forced to resign, fled possible criminal prosecution in Germany and, in the United States, landed an honourary position at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been far less receptive to repeated allegations that he was not the intellectual brain-trust behind his 1997 dissertation Mineral and Raw Materials Resources and the Development Strategy for the Russian Economy.
Employing the only cut-and-paste technology available in the late 1990s, she says her father helped Putin cheat by using scissors to snip paragraphs from various sources, glued them together and copied them to create new pages in his dissertation.Germany's zu Guttenburg, Romania's Ponta and Russia's Putin’s reactions to their false doctorate scandals are all completely appropriate, my research finds – if you consider the cultural context in which each occurred.
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