The Ministry of Education recently announced the "Departmental Budget for 20 19", which mentioned that according to the requirements of the Sampling Method for Doctoral Dissertations, it is planned to sample about 6,000 dissertations in 20 19, and the sampling ratio is about 10% of the number of doctoral degrees awarded in the previous academic year. Each paper will be sent to three peer experts for exchange review. If the evaluation of 1 among the three experts is "unqualified", two more experts will be sent to re-evaluate.
In terms of budget arrangement, the sampling budget for dissertations in 20 19 is 8 million yuan, which is all used to entrust the degree and postgraduate education development center of the Ministry of Education to carry out sampling exchange review of doctoral dissertations, mainly including expert review fees and related work funds.
Following the academic fraud incident in Zhai Tianlin, news about academic fraud has been exposed continuously.
On the evening of April 2, Guan Wei of Hunan University announced the investigation and handling instructions on Liu Mengjie's master's thesis suspected of academic misconduct, revoked the master's degree of this classmate, and Justin, the tutor, was warned, disqualified and transferred from the teaching post. Hunan University said that after investigation, it was found that Liu Mengjie's master thesis "Research on the Impact of Corruption on Tax Evasion of China Enterprises" had plagiarism, which constituted academic misconduct.
On April 3rd, the Ministry of Education publicly exposed the academic misconduct of Liang Ying, a teacher of Nanjing University, in official website. It is reported that Liang Ying, a teacher of Nanjing University, violated teaching discipline and perfunctory teaching. Graduate students violate academic norms, plagiarize and publish papers many times during their reading, regard plagiarized papers as their own achievements, and resort to deceit in the declaration of professional titles.