Friday, July 8, 2016

WAC refused to deprive chapter Minkosvyazi scientific degree – RBC

The head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov

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Higher Attestation commission (HAC) decided to maintain a degree the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov, who complained thesis “dissernet”. Earlier dissertation council recommended not to deprive him of degree

Expert advice on the industry and the regional economy of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) in the Ministry of Education unanimously decided to maintain a degree the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov, in the dissertation is an online community “dissernet” Matches with other scientific works. This was reported on Twitter one of the applicants, Leonid Volkov, who was present at the council meeting. Co-author of the statement, Ivan Babitsky, who was also at the meeting, confirmed RBC adoption of a unanimous decision of the expert WAC Board.

With the request to deprive Nikiforov scientific degree of experts’ dissernet “appealed to the WAC after 2014 tested his thesis Minister for plagiarism and found it “ambitious incorrect borrowing” from other scientific works which are not issued in the form of quotations and without reference to the author of the study.

in particular, experts have found in the work of the Minister on the theme “Innovative management model information flow in the provision of public electronic services by the example of the Republic of Tatarstan “matches with Alexander Sosnowski thesis” innovative model of information management in health care, “and the book Alexander Yurtaeva” Development and application of innovative technologies in the public administration. ” At the same opponent on the protection Nikiforov appeared supervisor of the thesis Sosnowski Galina Suldina and Yurtaev he was scientific director of the Minister of the thesis.

In June 2016 a complaint Volkov and other applicants from the “dissernet” considered the Dissertation Council of the Russian Academy of National Economy and public service under the President of Russia (RANHiGS). Although board members acknowledged that the minister has a match with the research Yurtaeva and Sosnowski, they unanimously decided to recommend to the WAC to uphold the decision to award the degree to the official.

Expert advice WAC in the discussion in detail Nikiforov not relied at the conclusion of the dissertation RANHiGS Council, Volkov told RBC. According to him, the Board conducted its own analysis of the text. The meeting was made a member of the Council, Professor Robert Nizhegorodtsev and said that, according to the examination carried out, Nikiforov, Yurtaev and Sosnowski wrote together scientific research program for the development of electronic services in Tatarstan, this explains the overlap in their work. This research work has been done by order of Tatarstan Government and were not published, and to refer to unpublished authors could not dissertations handed Wolves Council position.

In addition, the Council concluded that the matches found ” dissernet “, present only in the introduction, the first chapter and the conclusion, but not in the abstracts of those provisions, which are taken to protect and contain scientific novelty, Volkov added.

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