05 Dec 16 Croatia Urged to Tackle Rampant Culture of Plagiarism The resignation of the head of Croatia’s main ethics committee – who complained of his frustration – has highlighted the country’s apparent inability to penalise plagiarism by top officials and academics. Sven Milekic BIRN Zagreb Minister Pavo Barisic is under a spotlight for alleged plagiarism. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Sliverhand333 Plagiarism in Croatia’s academic community is not being dealt with and punished because fellow academics “turn a blind eye” to their colleague’s misdeeds and damage the image of the community as a whole, Tomislav Pletenac, a professor of ethnology and cultural anthropology at Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences told […]
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