After apologising and admitting to mistakes, Chinese TV and film star Zhai Tianlin has lost his doctoral degree amid findings of plagiarism, writes Michelle Wong for the South China Morning Post.
The Beijing Film Academy’s Performing Arts School decided to rescind Zhai’s PhD, obtained last year, and his former professor Chen Yi’s qualifications for teaching doctoral candidates, according to a statement by the institution posted on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo last week.
On Saturday, Peking University also issued a statement expelling Zhai from a two-year doctoral research programme on the value chain of the cultural industry at Guanghua School of Management, which admitted the television star last month. The Beijing Film Academy confirmed the plagiarism while Peking University had verified his academic misconduct. Both institutions apologised for a lack of cautiousness in their monitoring.
Full report on the South China Morning Post site
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