(Eine deutsche Version steht weiter unten.)<\/p>\n
6 JUNE 2013, THURSDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 In Wurzburg, Germany, You Can Just Pay a Professor to Write Your Dissertation \u2013 14<\/p>\n
In its twenty-two-page report of 8 June 2007, the university\u2019s standing committee on academic wrongdoing came to the conclusion that \u201call the circumstances in the case\u2026suggest that the payments to (Professor Keil\u2019s) Society for the History of Medicine were in return for the issuing of dissertations and for substantial support in drawing them up.\u201d The committee recommended handing the matter over to the district attorney, a recommendation the university president followed. In 2009 Professor Keil was sentenced to a fine of 14,400 euros (currently about $19,000). In six instances brought before the court, it could be proven that he had received money from an intermediary, Mr. \u201cM\u201d. The court, addressing Professor Keil, concluded that \u201cyou knew that when you received money from Mr. \u201cM\u201d, he was handing over these funds for the express purpose of arranging initial contacts with various presumptive doctoral candidates….\u201d Keil paid the fine, and the affair, for him and for the university, was over, and the story could end here. Except that it doesn\u2019t. This is where it really starts.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Mueller, Daniel, \u201ePromotionen: W\u00fcrzburger Doktorfabrik\u201c, Die Zeit Online, 16 November 2012. \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<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n —————————————–<\/p>\n 6 JUNI 2013, DONNERSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 Promotionen: W\u00fcrzburger Doktorfabrik \u2013 14<\/p>\n Auch die St\u00e4ndige Kommission kommt in ihrem 22-seitigen Abschlussbericht vom 8. Juni 2007 zu der Erkenntnis, dass \u00bbdie gesamten Umst\u00e4nde (…) den Verdacht nahe(legen), dass hier Zahlungen zum Vorteil jedenfalls der Medizinhistorischen Gesellschaft als Gegenleistung f\u00fcr die Ausgabe von Dissertationen und f\u00fcr wesentliche Hilfestellungen bei ihrer Erstellung erbracht wurden\u00ab. Sie empfiehlt, den Vorgang der Staatsanwaltschaft zu \u00fcbergeben, was der Pr\u00e4sident der Universit\u00e4t auch tut. 2009 erh\u00e4lt Professor Keil einen Strafbefehl. Er muss 14.400 Euro zahlen, in sechs F\u00e4llen konnte ihm nachgewiesen werden, dass er Geld von Promotionsvermittler M. bekommen hatte. In dem Strafbefehl hei\u00dft es: \u00bbIhnen war bei Entgegennahme der genannten Geldbetr\u00e4ge bewusst, dass der Zeuge M. Ihnen die Geldbetr\u00e4ge auch vor dem Hintergrund \u00fcberlie\u00df, dass \u00fcber ihn ein erster Kontakt zu verschiedenen zuk\u00fcnftigen Doktoranden zustande kam (…)\u00ab. Keil zahlt. Damit war das Thema f\u00fcr ihn und die Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg erledigt, die Geschichte k\u00f6nnte hier enden. Tut sie aber nicht. Eigentlich f\u00e4ngt sie hier erst richtig an.<\/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, 2012-2013, (http:\/\/goo.gl\/6EqmQ) steht die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, an der 105. 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 53 Stellen hinter Chinas Tsinghua University (an der 52. Stelle in der Welt), nur 40 Stellen hinter der Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (an der 65. Stelle in der Welt), nur 59 Stellen hinter der Peking University (an der 46. Stelle in der Welt), nur 76 Stellen hinter der National University of Singapore (an der 29. Stelle in der Welt), nur 55 Stellen hinter Koreas Pohang University of Science and Technology (an der 50. Stelle in der Welt), und, um noch einen Vergleich anzustellen, nur 100 Stellen hinter dem Massachusetts Institute of Technology (an der 5. Stelle in der Welt). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2012-13\/world-ranking)<\/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.<\/p>\n Und was ist mit Deutschland?<\/em> (Eine deutsche Version steht weiter unten.) 6 JUNE 2013, THURSDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 In Wurzburg, Germany, You Can Just Pay a Professor to Write Your Dissertation \u2013 14 In its twenty-two-page report of 8 June 2007, the university\u2019s standing committee on academic wrongdoing came to the conclusion that \u201call the […]<\/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-4716","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\/4716","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=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*According to The Times of London, in its Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2012-2013, (http:\/\/goo.gl\/6EqmQ) the Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 105 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 fifty-three places behind China\u2019s Tsinghua University (ranked 52 in the world), only forty places behind the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (ranked 65 in the world), only fifty-nine places behind Peking University (ranked 46 in the world), only seventy-six places behind the National University of Singapore (ranked 29 in the world), only fifty-five places behind Korea\u2019s Pohang University of Science and Technology (ranked 50 in the world), and, for another comparison, only one hundred places behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked 5 in the world). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2012-13\/world-ranking)<\/p>\n
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