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‘Controversies have swirled for years around Megatrend, which offers degrees in everything from media to economics and has campuses across Serbia. When Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the late Libyan leader, was granted an honorary doctorate in 2007, Srbijanka Turajlic — the then deputy minister for higher education — was quoted as saying, “This is not something this university should be proud of.” But considering “the quality of the university,” she added, “it is not surprising that it awarded a doctorate to a dictator.” ‘

Serbia’s Interior Minister, a Megatrend grad, is accused of having plagiarized his doctorate.

So what. Academic plagiarism’s endemic in much of the world. Let’s not get too excited about brave little Serbia’s borrowings.

Let us instead extract what pleasure we can from their new megatrendy university that – taking a page from Benjamin Barber’s book – celebrates dictators.

Margaret Soltan, June 5, 2014 1:42PM
Posted in: foreign universities

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