Fudan shames cheating scholars

SHANGHAI: Fudan University has publicly shamed nine teachers and students for their involvement in three separate cases of plagiarism, a first in the school's history.

The Scholarly Standard Committee released a circular detailing their misdeeds and punishment on the university's website. The unprecedented move triggered heated discussion on campus.

Three professors, four lecturers, one doctorate student and a post-graduate student were named and publicly reprimanded.