Academics support plagiarism whistleblower petition

By Michael Gardner. More than 600 academics in Germany have signed a petition demanding that cases of plagiarism and data manipulation be settled in discourses at subject level. The campaign is critical of a move by the German Rectors’ Conference to have such issues treated confidentially in university committees. Germany’s higher education system has been rocked by a wave of plagiarism scandals involving top politicians, which culminated earlier this year in the resignation of education minister Annette Schavan, following allegations of plagiarism. Read more...