Education minister resigns following plagiarism reports

Universul.net 04 October 2022

Romania’s Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu announced he would resign on Thursday 29 September after an investigative journalist published an article accusing him of plagiarising a university course he taught, becoming the second minister to step down in less than a year after plagiarism allegations, reports Universul.net.

The minister made no mention of the allegations and political fallout and said he was stepping down “on my own initiative”. He said it had been “an opportunity and an honour for me to start to reform the education system right from the bottom”. Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca accepted Cimpeanu’s resignation. Ciuca has also been accused of plagiarism on parts of his doctorate on military science, but he denies the allegation.

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan who has built her career on exposing high-level plagiarism and fraudulent PhDs on Monday 26 September published an article accusing the minister of plagiarising a university course in 2006. She claimed he appropriated 13 chapters which were the work of two other authors at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.
Full report on the Universul.net site

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