Hunan University strips degree in plagiarism case

Hunan University has stripped a student of her master's degree after confirming academic misconduct, the university said on Tuesday.

It said that Liu Mengjie, who graduated in 2018, plagiarized her master's dissertation from a confidential proposal for research funding from a national science organization.

Liu's supervisor, Hong Yuan, has been barred from teaching and from supervising any postgraduate candidates, the university said in a statement.