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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: academia
The Times Higher Education Supplement has produced a list of the world's top universities. They must have used a good methodology because UNSW came in at number 36. The United States dominated the list, with 20 out of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:41 PM • 24 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: academia
The story of the University of Newcastle plagiarism scandal continues: Professor Marimuthu was 18 days from signing a new five-year agreement that increased the annual fee payable by the Institut WIRA in Malaysia, where the campus was based, from...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:50 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: academia
The Syney Morning Herald has the latest evidence from the plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle (my previous posts are here and here) (my emphasis): The University of Newcastle sat on its "most serious" plagiarism allegations for more than...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:11 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: academia
In the latest installment in the U of Newcastle plagiarism scandal, Ronald MacDonald tries to outdo Robert Rugimbana (emphasis mine): The deputy vice-chancellor of research and internationalisation, Ronald MacDonald, said yesterday that he had originally believed the plagiarism claims...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:36 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academia
The Sydney Morning Herald reports (emphasis mine): In late 2002 a casual lecturer employed by the University of Newcastle to teach at its affiliated school in Malaysia, Institut WIRA, gave zero marks to 15 students in a class of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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