Taiwan authorities expose academic misconduct scandal again: education officials are exposed for plagiarism in their academic papers just one day after being promoted
The academic misconduct scandal of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities on the island continues to spread.
The position of "President of the National Academy of Education" by the Taiwan authorities has just been confirmed to be taken over by Zheng Yuanquan, Director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Taiwan authorities' education department. The handover ceremony will be held on September 1st. Unexpectedly, Wang Hongwei, a member of the Kuomintang in China, held a press conference on the same day to expose Zheng Yuanquan's plagiarism of his student's thesis and multiple submissions.
Wang Hongwei said that someone had reported Zheng Yuanquan before he was promoted, but the education department of the Taiwan authorities still allowed him to be promoted. Is Zheng Yuanquan, who is suspected of plagiarism, qualified to discuss education with others?
Zheng Yuanquan was exposed by Wang Hongwei for plagiarizing his own student's thesis and submitting multiple manuscripts. Taiwan Strait Network Map
Wang Hongwei stated that Zheng Yuanquan submitted an article in the Journal of Hsinchu University of Education titled "Research on Curriculum Leadership and Related Issues of Primary School Principals in the Development of Undergraduate Curriculum", and after comparison with software analysis, it surprisingly showed a similarity of 79%. By manual comparison, Zheng Yuanquan's submission surprisingly showed a high degree of plagiarism compared to the student's thesis he supervised.
Regarding this, Lv Wei, deputy spokesperson of the Kuomintang, stated that the plagiarism behavior of the Democratic Progressive Party is traceable. The plot of Zheng Yuanquan is particularly debatable, as he belongs to an education institution official and should have received the highest standards of scrutiny. He should have set an example, but the DPP authorities have shown the next generation that it is okay to plagiarize someone else's homework, and that those who plagiarize someone else's things can still be promoted to higher positions?