Was there any police clearance sought by the Ministry of Education before HASMUKH LAL (at a Topper meeting last year in photo above with Aiyaz Khaiyum) was offered the job, so that they would have the benefit of a background check on him? Appointing an alleged plagiarist to that Board to select and award scholarships is like placingA working group has been established to facilitate necessary legislative amendments to the existing provisions of the Tertiary Scholarship and Loans Act in consultation with the Solicitor General’s office. This as the coalition government is in the process of forgiving over $600 million in tertiary scholarship and loan debts and resetting the funding of tertiary students moving forward. Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Biman Prasad says a working committee has been established to evaluate and discuss relevant policies and existing laws to determine the best way forward to plan the proposed debt write-off. Source: FBC The case where former CEO of the Pacific Technical and Further Education, Dr Hasmukh Lal has taken USP to court following his dismissal continues in the Employment Court today. Dr Lal alleges his dismissal by Vice-Chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia was against procedures and did not allow him natural justice. He is alleging that there was breach of contract by USP and is claiming financial loss such as salary, and entitlements under the contract, humiliation and loss of dignity. Dr. Lal is claiming about $500,000 as loss of salary. He was dismissed from USP due to alleged plagiarism in his doctorate paper. He is represented by Siddarth Nandan while Feizal Haniff is representing USP. USP to Hasmukh Lal: “On 07 June 2019, you were conferred the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from the Atlantic International University. You subsequently submitted the DBA degree to USP for purposes of updating BANNER with the said doctorate. On 14 May 2020, USP obtained a copy of your thesis entitled “Business Impact of Strategic Mergers in Higher Education: A study of Pacific TAFE of University of the South Pacific” that you submitted to the Atlantic International University for the award of the DBA. The thesis paper that you submitted for the award of the DBA to the Atlantic International University is the same as that submitted by [name withheld] to you on 22 May 2019 entitled ‘Business Impact of Strategic Mergers in Higher Education: A Study of Pacific TAFE of University of the South Pacific.’ If it is established that you used a USP Document to represent a work of your own to obtain a DBA, it would constitute a breach of paragraph 4.1 of the Code of Professional Conduct for Academic Staff. Such a breach would be classified as “gross misconduct” on your part under the USP Discipline of Academic, Professional, Administrative, Library and Technical, Intermediate and Junior and Hourly Paid Staff Ordinance.”
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