So for everyone braying that he should be drawn and quartered (and having no understanding of Thesis vs Synthesis, of which his paper was the latter), even the University thinks he should just correctly site his sources and re-submit.
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>The University published their own statement,going into more detail about the decisions. The investigation was ledby two reporters and had also heard Bettel’s former “directeur dutravail” during his DEA. They also state that it was “an original work of compilation and synthesis”, but that some parts of the document “could be considered a form of plagiarism” because these passages “had not been cited correctly”. Inan interview with RTL, the president of the University reiterated thesepoints. He regrets Bettel’s decision to rescind his DEA altogether.After all, all they had asked of him were corrections to the form, notthe contents of the work.
Tbf, they have always been rather proud of counting him as a head of government among their former students. He even went back there in 2016 to talk about the Luxembourgish presidency of the Council of the EU.
Seems like just a power play to prove that they can force even a head of state to do more homework, but he probably has better things to do (at least I hope so). It’s not like he’ll need his DEA to find a job anymore. It’s been my experience too that the university never wants to help more than when you no longer need them.
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So for everyone braying that he should be drawn and quartered (and having no understanding of Thesis vs Synthesis, of which his paper was the latter), even the University thinks he should just correctly site his sources and re-submit.
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>The University published their own statement,going into more detail about the decisions. The investigation was ledby two reporters and had also heard Bettel’s former “directeur dutravail” during his DEA. They also state that it was “an original work of compilation and synthesis”, but that some parts of the document “could be considered a form of plagiarism” because these passages “had not been cited correctly”. Inan interview with RTL, the president of the University reiterated thesepoints. He regrets Bettel’s decision to rescind his DEA altogether.After all, all they had asked of him were corrections to the form, notthe contents of the work.
Tbf, they have always been rather proud of counting him as a head of government among their former students. He even went back there in 2016 to talk about the Luxembourgish presidency of the Council of the EU.
Seems like just a power play to prove that they can force even a head of state to do more homework, but he probably has better things to do (at least I hope so). It’s not like he’ll need his DEA to find a job anymore. It’s been my experience too that the university never wants to help more than when you no longer need them.