SINGAPORE – The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is investigating one of its professors following online claims that he had plagiarised a former student's final-year project in his research paper. The assertions were first made on online forum Reddit on Tuesday (July 25) by someone claiming to be an NTU student, who noticed stark similarities between associate professor Qu Jingyi's 2018...
SINGAPORE – The Nanyang Technological University is investigating one of its professors following online claims that he had plagiarised a former student's final-year project in his research paper.
Professor Qu’s 2018 paper is written in English, while Wang's is in Chinese. Professor Qu’s paper, which was accessible on Academia.edu, an open repository of academic articles, has since been taken down. To give an example, Professor Qu wrote in his analysis of a poem: "Is Yang Zhu crying at the forked road or Ruan Ji feeling sad at his own road ? The answer is obvious. The two lines seen in the poem later, 'Facing upwards, soaring birds in flight can be seen/ Looking downwards fishes are swimming merrily’ depicts the imagery of 'the freedom flying birds and swimming fishes enjoy', actually the representative of Ruan Ji’s desire for freedom.
He wrote: "Hence, this paper suggests that contrary to the popular convention of labelling escapism as a term with derogatory connotations, escapism can be viewed as a neutral term as well. Since escapism is an effective means of self-protection, understanding escapism may lead us to better, more positive understanding of Man’s tendencies when faced with dire circumstances."
The spokesman said: "The university is committed to the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct and takes allegations of academic misconduct very seriously.
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