BDU prof in dock over bid to pose as PhD examiner
Opens Fake Email IDs To Evaluate His Own Scholars
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com 06.03.2018
Trichy: A professor of Bharathidasan University created multiple email IDs allegedly to pose as external examiners for his own research scholars, the viva voce of his research scholars a few days before the Februray 21convocation found. The university then withheld the PhD.
While the vice-chancellor has ordered a detailed inquiry into the incident, seen as a first-of-its-kind in BDU, insiders say a comprehensive inquiry may lead to more skeletons tumbling out of the closet. It is mandatory for each PhD thesis to be evaluated by an external examiner, from within and outside the country. But the professor, by creating dubious email IDs, decided to evaluate the PhD work of his own students, a criminal offence.
Research guides are not authorised to know which external examiner is going to evaluate the PhD thesis of their students. However, they have to give a list of nine external examiners, of whom five should be from outside the country and the rest from within. When TOI spoke to the associate professor of the computer science department, he rejected such claims.
Stating that creating dubious email IDs posing as external examiner was a criminal offence, former Association of University Teachers president K Pandiyan said the guide would have known the PhD thesis of his student might not pass muster if scanned by an external examiner and decided to pose as an external examiner.
Former head of the department of defence studies of the university, Professor Gopalji Malviya, said there was rampant corruption in universities across Tamil Nadu, especially in PhDs. Terming it a highly skilled kind of corruption, he said “right from writing of PhD thesis, submission, viva voce and sending it to the external examiner, the whole process has been skillfully fabricated.”
He said weak and academically unskilled scholars resorted to such means but research guides were the real perpetrators. He gave the example of how the PhD of a professor in computer science department from one of the affiliated colleges of Madras University was withdrawn after his thesis was found plagiarised.
When contacted, vicechancellor P Manishankar said it would not be appropriate for him to say anything on the matter before the inquiry committee gave its report and the same got approved in the syndicate.
Opens Fake Email IDs To Evaluate His Own Scholars
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com 06.03.2018
Trichy: A professor of Bharathidasan University created multiple email IDs allegedly to pose as external examiners for his own research scholars, the viva voce of his research scholars a few days before the Februray 21convocation found. The university then withheld the PhD.
While the vice-chancellor has ordered a detailed inquiry into the incident, seen as a first-of-its-kind in BDU, insiders say a comprehensive inquiry may lead to more skeletons tumbling out of the closet. It is mandatory for each PhD thesis to be evaluated by an external examiner, from within and outside the country. But the professor, by creating dubious email IDs, decided to evaluate the PhD work of his own students, a criminal offence.
Research guides are not authorised to know which external examiner is going to evaluate the PhD thesis of their students. However, they have to give a list of nine external examiners, of whom five should be from outside the country and the rest from within. When TOI spoke to the associate professor of the computer science department, he rejected such claims.
Stating that creating dubious email IDs posing as external examiner was a criminal offence, former Association of University Teachers president K Pandiyan said the guide would have known the PhD thesis of his student might not pass muster if scanned by an external examiner and decided to pose as an external examiner.
Former head of the department of defence studies of the university, Professor Gopalji Malviya, said there was rampant corruption in universities across Tamil Nadu, especially in PhDs. Terming it a highly skilled kind of corruption, he said “right from writing of PhD thesis, submission, viva voce and sending it to the external examiner, the whole process has been skillfully fabricated.”
He said weak and academically unskilled scholars resorted to such means but research guides were the real perpetrators. He gave the example of how the PhD of a professor in computer science department from one of the affiliated colleges of Madras University was withdrawn after his thesis was found plagiarised.
When contacted, vicechancellor P Manishankar said it would not be appropriate for him to say anything on the matter before the inquiry committee gave its report and the same got approved in the syndicate.
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