Education Minister Sorin Kimpeanu, at the center of a plagiarism scandal, announced his resignation on Thursday evening. “I decided on my own initiative to resign from the post of Minister of Education,” he wrote on Facebook. Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke announced that he had accepted the resignation of Sorin Kimpeanu and that a new proposal for the Minister of Education would be made quickly.

Sorin Kimpeanu’s resignation comes in the context of plagiarism allegations against him as a result of an exposé by journalist Emilia Serkan.

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Kimpeanu announced his resignation in a Facebook post:

• “On my own initiative, I decided to resign from the post of Minister of Education. It was a chance and an honor for me to start a fundamental reform of the national education system.”
• “I accepted the mandate of the minister not because I had something to do or to add the ministry to my resume. I had both. I came at an extremely difficult time with the desire to change the situation for the better,” he wrote.

He then lists the “successful changes” in his mandate as minister that “laid the foundations for the reform of ‘Educated Romania’.” At the same time, he does not name the reasons why he decided to resign.

• RENEWAL: Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke announces that he has accepted the resignation of Sorin Kimpeanu as Minister of Education and that consultations are to take place within the PNL and the government coalition to “quickly” approve the minister’s new proposal.

In recent days, Minister Sorin Kimpeanu has been at the center of a plagiarism scandal

Sorin Kimpeanu is accused of plagiarizing a specialized course of 92 pages of the work of two professors of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, with whom he signed in 2000 as the fourth author of a nine-page university course.

Journalist Emilia Sherkan wrote in PressOne that Sorin Ciempeanu plagiarized 13 chapters previously published by two other professors from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest.

“A lot of people discuss what they don’t know, judge and give verdicts on the Internet, on Facebook. Given that there are so many ethics boards and commissions at almost all levels, if the verdicts are passed on Facebook by ignorant people, I can only help them by explaining to them once again that thesis supervisor means practical,” Sorin told Kimpeanu. , Wednesday night, on TVR Info.

He explained that the manual for practical work contains laws, equations, tables, nomograms, dimensional charts, “a lot of specific things” without which students could not do practical work or make course projects.

“Support was needed. This medium contains all this data, which cannot and should not be changed. Practical manuals were not issued with an ISBN, so they were not taken into account when improving the qualifications of teaching staff. Unfortunately, I regret to say that many teachers have lost interest in these practical manuals and seminar books. why Since they don’t count, it doesn’t help them advance. Those who lose from all this are students,” the minister added.

Literature:

• The only education minister to resign after accusations of plagiarism, “advice” to Sorin Ciempeanu: “The most elegant thing would be to resign” / List of Romanian education ministers accused of plagiarism
• How journalist Emilia Serkan analyzes point by point the letter in which Sorin Kimpeanu defends himself against accusations of plagiarism
• How Sorin Kimpeanu defends himself in plagiarism scandal after three days of defiant and ironic responses – ‘instructive testimony’ posted on Facebook
• PHOTO Representatives of civil society protest in front of the Ministry of Education. I demand the resignation of Sorin Kimpeanu, accused of plagiarism
• Emilia Sherkan on accusations of plagiarism by the Minister of Education: He tried to pass the law in his own interests / He has no arguments