Ministry restates rules for reviewing master’s thesesMORE ALLEGATIONS: The Taiwan Statebuilding Party said that members of Kaohsiung City Councilor Lee Ya-ching’s thesis committee lacked appropriate qualificationsBy Wu Po-hsuan / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Education yesterday reminded universities that members of examination committees for master’s degrees should be appointed based on academic professionalism and peer consensus. The statement was issued after the Taiwan Statebuilding Party questioned the qualifications of examination committee members who had evaluated the master’s thesis of Kaohsiung City Councilor Lee Ya-ching (李雅靜) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Kaohsiung’s residents cannot accept local factions intervening in university autonomy and academic ethics, he said, calling on the ministry to investigate. The university yesterday released its enforcement rules for master’s degree examinations, which include the same qualifications for examination committee members as the Degree Conferral Act. Amid mounting accusations that she had plagiarized her thesis, Jane Lee on Thursday said she would give up her master’s degree.

Source: Taipei Times July 26, 2020 15:56 UTC