Thesis advisers still liable: MOEACADEMIC ETHICS: Universities should improve their mechanisms to ensure the quality of graduate theses and hold faculty accountable for breaches, the MOE saidBy Dennis Xie / Staff writer, with CNAAlthough some universities have been requiring students to take full responsibility for breaches of academic ethics, their thesis advisers should still be held accountable for such breaches, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said yesterday. Photo: Lin Hsiao-yun, Taipei TimesAcademic institutions also need to accept accountability to improve their mechanisms for quality assurance for graduate theses in the face of ethics breaches, it added. The ministry would take into account universities’ performance on thesis quality and addressing academic dishonesty when determining their student quota and evaluating a school’s application to establish a new department, it said. The ministry said that it would reveal the information on how universities discipline departments to uphold academic ethics and the outcomes. The university said that it also has mechanisms in place to hold to account advisers who have been implicated in breaches of academic integrity.

Source: Taipei Times August 11, 2020 15:56 UTC