NTU Investigating Professor Who is Accused of Plagiarising Student’s Work

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Goh Yi Ling
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If you have ever submitted an official report for school or work, you would know that plagiarism is a big no-no.

It can cost you your grades.

It can even cost you your job in the workplace if things do not go well.

One professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) did not get that memo. He is accused of plagiarising a student’s work.

Investigations are ongoing.

Here is what happened.

NTU Professor Accused of Plagarising Student’s Work

Bad deeds always catch up to you. You probably have heard this at some point in your life.

And it may very well be true, given that an associate professor’s paper from 2018 has surfaced with accusations of plagiarism.

The professor in question is Associate Professor Qu Jingyi. He is listed on the university’s website as an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities.

His portfolio also includes being the Deputy Director of the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, School of Humanities. He is also the Head of Chinese in the School of Humanities.

Allegations of plagiarism first arose on Reddit, where similarities were drawn between Prof Qu’s Escape As A Mode Of Existence: On Ruan Ji’s Escapism Complex research paper from 2018 and a project by Mr Wang Yueming titled Escapism In The Literary Works Of Ruan Ji.

Mr Wang’s project was completed in 2014. He was a student at NTU who had Prof Qu as his academic advisor.

While Prof Qu’s paper was written in English and Mr Wang’s paper was written in Chinese, the language differences did not appear to mask the uncanny similarities between the documents.

According to a comparison by The Straits Times, more than half of Prof Qu’s paper appeared to be a direct translation of Mr Wang’s paper. There was no proper attribution to Mr Wang in Prof Qu’s paper.

The direct translations included poem analysis and inferences.

For those unaware, Ruan Ji is a Han dynasty Chinese poet (existing during the Three Kingdoms period).

Investigations Are Underway

Given the Reddit post about the likely plagiarism, which mentioned NTU’s strict no-plagiarism policy, it comes as no surprise that NTU has started to investigate the matter.

The Straits Times spoke to an NTU spokesman who revealed that investigations were ongoing within the School of Humanities. It was not convenient to reveal further information at this point.

It was also reported that Prof Qu was absent at NTU’s graduation ceremony after the news broke.

We guess all left to do is wait and see while the truth finds its way to the surface.

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