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The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cResearch Prize for Plagiarized Work\u201d \u2013 3<\/p>\n
At the same time, it became known that the young historian responsible for the work, Julia Bellmann, had belatedly declared, a year earlier, that around a third of the two hundred forty-one short biographies in her book had been based \u201cessentially on information\u201d contained in a book published two years before that by her colleague Rebecca Schwoch. Bellmann had taken portions of some of the texts word for word from Schwoch\u2019s book without citing any source \u2013 an instance of plagiarism.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Hermann Horstkotte, \u201cForschungspreis f\u00fcr ein Plagiat,\u201c ZeitOnline, 13.12.2013.<\/p>\n *According to The Times of London, in its Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2012-2013, (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2013-14\/world-ranking) the Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 87 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 thirty-seven places behind China\u2019s Tsinghua University (ranked 50 in the world), only thirty places behind the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (ranked 57 in the world), only forty-two places behind Peking University (ranked 45 in the world), only sixty-one places behind the National University of Singapore (ranked 26 in the world), only twenty-seven places behind Korea\u2019s Pohang University of Science and Technology (ranked 60 in the world), and, for another comparison, only eighty-two places behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked 5 in the world). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2013-14\/world-ranking)<\/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<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n —————————————–<\/p>\n 8 JULI 2014, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 \u201eForschungspreis f\u00fcr ein Plagiat\u201c \u2013 3<\/p>\n Dabei hatte die verantwortliche Nachwuchshistorikerin Julia Bellmann voriges Jahr nachtr\u00e4glich erkl\u00e4rt, dass rund ein Drittel ihrer 241 Kurzbiographien “wesentlich auf den Angaben” eines zwei Jahre j\u00fcngeren Werkes ihrer Kollegin Rebecca Schwoch basieren. Teilweise hat Bellmann Textabschnitte eins zu eins aus der Vorlage \u00fcbernommen, ohne das zu erw\u00e4hnen \u2013 ein Plagiat.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: Hermann Horstkotte, \u201eForschungspreis f\u00fcr ein Plagiat\u201c, ZeitOnline, 13.12.2013.<\/p>\n *Nach der Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2012-2013, (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2013-14\/world-ranking) steht die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, an der 87. 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 37 Stellen hinter Chinas Tsinghua University (an der 50. Stelle in der Welt), nur 30 Stellen hinter der Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (an der 57. Stelle in der Welt), nur 42 Stellen hinter der Peking University (an der 45. Stelle in der Welt), nur 61 Stellen hinter der National University of Singapore (an der 26. Stelle in der Welt), nur 27 Stellen hinter Koreas Pohang University of Science and Technology (an der 60. Stelle in der Welt), und, um noch einen Vergleich anzustellen, nur 82 Stellen hinter dem Massachusetts Institute of Technology (an der 5. Stelle in der Welt). (http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2013-14\/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.) 8 JULY 2014, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 \u201cResearch Prize for Plagiarized Work\u201d \u2013 3 At the same time, it became known that the young historian responsible for the work, Julia Bellmann, had belatedly declared, a year earlier, that around a third of the two […]<\/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-5271","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\/5271","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=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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