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24 April 2013, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 In Wurzburg, Germany, You Can Just Pay a Professor to Write Your Dissertation \u2013 10<\/p>\n
Stolberg undertook to start an internal university investigation, and in the autumn of 2006 the matter was taken up by the university\u2019s standing committee on academic wrongdoing. It turned out that a \u201cdoctorate consultant\u201d had passed on doctoral candidates to Keil, something that Keil admitted in part. However, according to committee minutes, Keil\u2019s admission went only so far as to confirm that \u201cMr. M.\u201d had \u201cbrought doctoral candidates to him who were experienced professionals.\u201d Keil said that \u201che was unaware of any personal interest \u2018Mr. M.\u2019 might have had in these introductions.\u201d According to Keil, \u201cMr. M.\u201d had long ago presented himself to the Institute as \u201can industrialist with a great interest in the history of medicine\u201d. And the payments from this \u201cdoctorate consultant\u201d, which since 1994 had been made regularly to Keil\u2019s Wurzburg Society for the History of Medicine, \u201chad nothing to do with the dissertations,\u201d as Keil put it to the university committee.<\/p>\n According to the committee\u2019s final report, \u201cMr. M.\u201d had (before the introduction of the euro) made payments to Keil\u2019s society of between 7,500 and 15,000 Deutschmarks ($5,000 to $10,000). The doctoral candidates also \u201ccontributed\u201d 8,000 Deutschmarks ($5,300) each, and they did so \u201cabout the time they received their doctorates\u201d. For the committee, \u201cordinary common sense would raise doubts about any assertion that there was no connection between the payments and the doctorates\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Mueller, Daniel, \u201ePromotionen: W\u00fcrzburger Doktorfabrik\u201c, Die Zeit Online, 16 November 2012.<\/p>\n *According to The Times of London, in its Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2011-2012, the Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 88 overall among the world\u2019s universities. <\/strong>At its current ranking, the Technical University of Munich is not so very far behind many universities in, for example, East Asia. It is now only seventeen places behind China\u2019s Tsinghua University (ranked 71 in the world), only twenty-six places behind the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (ranked 62 in the world), only thirty-nine places behind Peking University (ranked 49 in the world), only forty-eight places behind the National University of Singapore (ranked 40 in the world), only thirty-five places behind Korea\u2019s Pohang University of Science and Technology (ranked 53 in the world), and, for another comparison, only eighty-one places behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked 7 in the world). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2011-2012\/top-400.html)<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the traditional study-abroad sites for Americans, Britain, Italy, Spain and France, still attract more students from the United States, the report found that China is now the fifth-most-popular destination.\u201d \u2013 The New York Times, 17 November 2008<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n —————————————–<\/p>\n 24 APRIL 2013, MITTWOCH, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 Promotionen: W\u00fcrzburger Doktorfabrik \u2013 10<\/p>\n Stolberg strengt eine universit\u00e4tsinterne Pr\u00fcfung der Arbeiten an, im Herbst 2006 nimmt sich die St\u00e4ndige Kommission zur Untersuchung wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens der Sache an. Es stellt sich heraus, dass ein \u00bbPromotionsberater\u00ab die Doktoranden an Keil vermittelt hat, was dieser teilweise auch einr\u00e4umt. Allerdings nur insoweit, als der betreffende Herr M. ihm \u00bbfachlich versierte Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen gebracht\u00ab habe, wie es in einem Besprechungsprotokoll hei\u00dft. Die \u00bbInteressenlage von Herrn M. sei ihm dabei nicht bekannt gewesen\u00ab. Dieser habe sich schlie\u00dflich schon lange vorher an das Institut gewandt und sich als \u00bbIndustrieller vorgestellt, der gro\u00dfes Interesse an medizinhistorischen Themen zeigte\u00ab. Auch die seit 1994 vom Promotionsberater regelm\u00e4\u00dfig get\u00e4tigten Zahlungen an die von Keil gegr\u00fcndete W\u00fcrzburger Medizinhistorische Gesellschaft h\u00e4tten \u00bbnichts mit den Dissertationen zu tun\u00ab, wie Keil laut einem Protokoll der St\u00e4ndigen Kommission sagt.<\/p>\n Mehrmals hat Herr M., wie der Abschlussbericht der Kommission vermerkt, Betr\u00e4ge von 7.500 oder 15.000 Mark gespendet. Auch Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen haben an den Verein gespendet, jeweils 8.000 Mark, \u00bbund zwar in zeitlicher N\u00e4he zu ihrem jeweiligen Promotionsverfahren\u00ab. Und da soll kein Zusammenhang bestehen? Die Untersuchungskommission jedenfalls \u00bbhat (…) vor dem Hintergrund der allgemeinen Lebenserfahrung Zweifel, ob diese Darstellung glaubw\u00fcrdig ist\u00ab.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: M\u00fcller, Daniel, \u201ePromotionen: W\u00fcrzburger Doktorfabrik\u201c, Die Zeit Online, 16.11.2012.<\/p>\n *Nach der Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2011-2012, steht die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, an der 88. Stelle in der Welt.<\/strong> Heute an ihrer jetzigen Stelle, steht die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen nicht mehr bei weitem hinter vielen Universit\u00e4ten in, zum Beispiel, Ostasien. Sie steht nur 17 Stellen hinter Chinas Tsinghua University (an der 71. Stelle in der Welt), nur 26 Stellen hinter der Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (an der 62. Stelle in der Welt), nur 39 Stellen hinter der Peking University (an der 49. Stelle in der Welt), nur 48 Stellen hinter der National University of Singapore (an der 40. Stelle in der Welt), nur 35 Stellen hinter Koreas Pohang University of Science and Technology (an der 53. Stelle in der Welt), und, um noch einen Vergleich anzustellen, nur 81 Stellen hinter dem Massachusetts Institute of Technology (an der 7. Stelle in der Welt). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2011-2012\/top-400.html)<\/p>\n \u201eUnter Amerikanern, die im Ausland studieren, sind die beliebtesten L\u00e4nder Gro\u00dfbritannien, Italien, Spanien, Frankreich und China.\u201c – The New York Times, 17.11.2008.<\/p>\n Und was ist mit Deutschland?<\/em> (Eine deutsche Version steht weiter unten.) 24 April 2013, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 In Wurzburg, Germany, You Can Just Pay a Professor to Write Your Dissertation \u2013 10 Stolberg undertook to start an internal university investigation, and in the autumn of 2006 the matter was taken up by the university\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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