The Minister of Labour, Betssy Chavez, is in silence after the Sunday program 'Panorama' broadcast that, at the less, 49% of his thesis would have been plagiarized.
The Jorge Basadre National University in Tacna opened a preliminary investigation to determine whether the Minister of Labor, Betssy Chavez, plagiarized the thesis with which she graduated as a lawyer.
The academic vice-rector of the UNJBT, Adriana Luque, specified that the inquiry has already begun and that information has been requested from the corresponding faculty in order to verify whether it is true that a fault was committed.
“All this for the purpose of sending us the data on the year in which he graduated, when he graduated, the modality, his jury, etc.”, he stressed.
The journalistic space revealed that the congresswoman's thesis was submitted to the Turnitin software, which is used to find similarities or plagiarism, and it was possible to verify that almost half of the work was copied.
Luque also said that it seeks to determine whether Chavez was titled before the date on which the 'anti-plagiarism software' came into effect, since before 2016 there was no way to determine whether the thesis had a level of similarity to other works.
Jorge Montoya, spokesman for Renewal Popular, said that if the Ethics Committee does not open an investigation into the case, his bench will ask for an inquiry in order to determine responsibilities.
Likewise, Congressman Luis Alegría said he will request the Audit Commission to summon Betssy Chávez, the rector of Jorge Basadre University and the Panorama journalist.
LATHESIS
The Panorama program showed that up to 12 sheets of the research of the Minister of Labor's thesis would have been literally copied from another work.
“In the specific analysis, complete pages have been found pasted and copied from different sources that have not been cited throughout the document. This is gross and badly done plagiarism,” declared the researcher at the Universidad Científica del Sur, Percy Mayta, after reviewing the content of the research allegedly written by the Peruvian Libre congresswoman, Betssy Chavez.
Panorama revealed that one of the copied sources would be a United Nations report published in 2010. A dozen pages would have been copied from this one, while 16 pages would have been extracted from another work. According to plagiarism detection software, 49% of Chavez's research would already exist in other sources and would not have been properly cited.
“He's lucky because his thesis is from 2015. The University Law of 2014 proposes that there should be regulations, finally approved in 2016, where universities are required to require originality, to have ways of verifying similarity and, of course, that there is no plagiarism in documents. If that thesis had been reviewed with the current regulations, I would clearly not have been able to obtain a degree,” Mayta added.
In a first reaction, Chávez said on Twitter that “the power groups and their journalists say that 12 of the 396 pages of my thesis are plagiarism. Panorama and Trade should try a little harder.”
He then issued a statement stating that “the identity of a thesis is determined on the basis of the contribution obtained from fieldwork, the approach of the problem with its variables and the analysis of the information obtained”. Líneas below emphasizes that what is stated by the software “does not disable or diminish the value of the research work deployed, much less does it turn the thesis into “plagiarism” or “copy”.
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