In order to maintain academic norms, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Education of Korea conducted an investigation on the current situation of "improper behavior of paper signature" at the end of 20 17, and announced the investigation results on the 25th. Based on 70,000 full-time teachers in four-year universities and research institutes in South Korea, the survey investigated whether the children of middle school students have signed their names with the authors in the papers published in Korean and foreign academic journals in recent ten years.
According to reports, in February 20 17 17, there was a public opinion that there was widespread academic misconduct among Korean university professors in order to increase their children's background resumes and sign their children as the same authors of papers. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Korea urgently conducted this survey.
The survey results show that there are 82 cases of academic misconduct in 29 universities in South Korea. Among them, there were 39 cases of misconduct involving publishing papers and their children's junior high school education courses or even college entrance examination, involving 16 colleges and universities; 43 * * has nothing to do with the children's school curriculum, but belongs to the personal behavior of the professors involved, involving 19 colleges and universities. Judging from the universities involved, there are 8 Sungkyunkwan University, 7 Yonsei University and 6 Seoul National University. In addition, these 82 cases of improper signature of papers are mainly concentrated in the field of science and engineering, accounting for 97%.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the current law clearly stipulates that it is academic misconduct to classify people who have not made substantial contributions to the research involved in the paper as * * * co-authors. The 82 cases of improper author signature involved in this investigation will all be submitted to the academic ethics committees of the corresponding universities, asking them to thoroughly investigate whether there is academic fraud. In addition, once it is verified that the professors involved in the case use papers to seek convenience for their children's enrollment, the next step will be to cancel their children's enrollment qualifications.
China has the same behavior. Aren't the children of officials civil servants?