MK:UPM – a ‘research university’ condoning plagiarism
April 6, 2010 by Pagalavan Letchumanan
This letter below was written in Malaysiakini by a person who called himself “Professor Kangkong“. We must accept the fact that our universities have become the laughing-stock of the nation. The letter below is a clear example of what is happening in our universities.
I was made to understand that in some local universities, you are given an A/Prof post if you just publish 3 papers in any journal or conference publication. This means that if you publish 3 abstracts in any conference (conference publications) you can be considered for an A/Prof post. The same goes if you can publish 3 papers in any journals, it does not matter whether it is an index journal or no impact factor journal! At first I did not believe this untill I saw it with my own eyes! I have even seen so-called “A/Prof” who can’t speak proper English!
Compare this with Monash university Australia where almost 80% of their academics retire at the level of Senior Lecturer after years of service! They not only look at the number of publications but the impact factor and the quality of the publications. Conference publications, abstracts, letters to editor, images are not considered. Case reports are also not considered equivalent to a full article.
I have given up on our local universities. What is the failure rate of our university students? Any guess? I am sure it is 100% pass rate unless the students drop out by him/herself.
I just hope my children will be able to study in some prestigious universities overseas. For that I need to save lots of money from now onwards…………….. and that’s the reason I am going full-time private from June 2010!
UPM – a ‘research university’ condoning plagiarism
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Professor Kankong
Apr 6, 10
3:34pm
Last year, two Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) academics, a professor and deputy dean and a senior lecturer, were exposed for plagiarism, the most serious offence in academia.
Both of them plagiarised from the Internet and used the material for their ‘book’- ‘Writing an Effective Resume.’
No action was taken against these two, the UPM vice-chancellor Prof Dr Nik Mustapha R Abdullah said a warning was adequate – they both kept their job and titles and did not lose anything.
How can UPM – a research university – condone plagiarism? You call yourself a world-class university and yet allow your staff to plagiarise with impunity. Is it any wonder that standards in Malaysian universities are dropping like stones?
Worse still, the book is still available on the market. It looks like in Malaysian universities, research means copying from the Internet. Worse still, they are both still doing ‘research’.
If Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak wants to improve the standards of our public universities, the first thing he needs to do is to take action and punish these so-called professors. Worse, one of them is now a member of the National Professors Board. What a joke.
What does it take to clean up the monkeys in our public universities? UPM – University of Plagiarists Malaysia?
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