Education Minister Sorin Cîmpeanu resigned Thursday after journalist Emilia Șercan accused him of plagiarising a scientific work. Cîmpeanu had been accused of including provisions in the draft laws on education that whitewashed all plagiarists. He is the second minister in the Ciucă government to leave office after accusations of academic integrity.
On 15th of December 2020, Florin Roman resigned as Minister of Research after listing a non-existent degree on his CV.
Libertatea then published an investigation showing that Roman had listed on his CV that he had a degree in economics from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj. UBB revealed that Roman is not a graduate of the university, but received a diploma from a college.
It was the first case of resignation in the Ciucă government on grounds of academic integrity.
In August 2021, G4Media wrote that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Lucian Bode, sealed his doctoral thesis the day before the announced deadline for full publication on a platform managed by the Ministry of Education.
He did this by sending an address to the university where he defended his thesis. He later justified his decision by saying that he had published his work at a publishing house,
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