Fudan University's Academic Regulation Commission has announced on the university's official website that nine teachers and students at the school, including some mentors for doctors, had been involved in plagiarism when preparing their respective books and theses.
It is a rare case in China that a university will publish its own academic infringement of students and teachers. A representative from Fudan University says that the school exposed its own scandal mainly to guide teachers and to advocate the establishment of good academic research atmosphere.
Fudan University says that the nine teachers and students come from the school's Foreign Language College, ENT & Eye & Dental and Oral Disorders Hospital and Information College. Of them, the Postgraduate English Thesis and Writing was said to have the most serious case of plagiarism. The Academic Regulation Commission has suggested a reprimand be issued to the concerned parties and their duties be curtailed.
Set up in 2005, Fudan University Academic Regulation Commission is responsible for investigating and dealing with academic regulation issues.
