{"id":507,"date":"2013-12-31T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=507"},"modified":"2013-12-31T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:58:47","slug":"fake-paper-impact-uop-vc-to-issue-circular-clarifying-that-publications-are-not-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/education-2\/fake-paper-impact-uop-vc-to-issue-circular-clarifying-that-publications-are-not-mandatory","title":{"rendered":"Fake Paper Impact: UoP VC to issue circular clarifying that publications are not mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/education-2\/how-i-published-a-fake-paper-and-why-it-is-the-fault-of-our-education-system\">fake paper I managed to publish this weekend<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/301213-pune-pune-techie-busts-science-seminar-racket.htm\">resulting Mid-Day story<\/a>, the reporter from Mid-Day has been busy following up with next steps.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, there are two new stories in Mid-Day.<\/p>\n<p>The first one is good news. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Pune has confirmed that publications are not mandatory for getting an ME\/MTech degree, just recommended. Considering that students are being given an incorrect impression, a circular is being issued to the colleges in the University of Pune clarifying this.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/311213-being-published-in-a-journal-or-presenting-a-paper-not-obligatory.htm\">full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another, less savory aspect of this affair is the impact on the people involved in the organization of that conference. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/311213-science-seminars-racket-lone-jury-member-presented-paper-evaluated-it-himself.htm\">story related to that is here<\/a>, and manages to uncover some more interesting details of what was going on behind the scenes at that conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the fake paper I managed to publish this weekend, and the resulting Mid-Day story, the reporter from Mid-Day has been busy following up with next steps. One day later, there are two new stories in Mid-Day. The first one is good news. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Pune has confirmed that publications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/education-2\/fake-paper-impact-uop-vc-to-issue-circular-clarifying-that-publications-are-not-mandatory\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Paper Impact: UoP VC to issue circular clarifying that publications are not mandatory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[89],"tags":[104,60,102,103,106,107,73,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}