Plagiarism in the news: 2-1-2013

plagiarism in the news

We begin this month’s plagiarism stories with an interesting and rather high profile case from Germany. Annette Schavan, the German education minister, is accused of plagiarizing on her doctoral dissertation which was published back in 1980 under the (ironic title) “Character and Conscience”. While the investigation is still pending, all the signs suggest that the German minister did commit intentional plagiarism, according the chairman of the investigating committee.

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Welcome to Academicplagiarism. It’s 2013 and we have some exciting announcement to share with our members and guests today. Let’s start with the obvious. By now, you have certainly noticed that we have given our website a much needed facelift that has significantly improved the overall aesthetics of the site. She’s definitely looking pretty ;). In addition, we have made major changes under the hood to increase page-loading speed through Amazon’s state of the art content delivery network. Navigating between pages is now a breeze! Of course we didn’t stop there. In keeping up with our commitment to privacy and security, we have upgraded our security policy to include all areas of your account. Now each time you login to your account, submit a file or download a report, you can be assured that your data is safe and secure thanks to our newly implemented 256 BIT encryption.