Megatrend University

Montenegro's prosecutor's office has told the country's police to seek Interpol's help to determine whether Science Minister Sanja Vlahovic plagiarised her scientific work, media reported on Thursday.

The state prosecutor interrogated Vlahovic in May over claims that she plagiarized her research on tourism, after a watchdog, the Center for Civic Education, filed a law suit.

Exhibition, special program to celebrate Chinese New Year

BELGRADE -- The Chinese embassy and the Chinese Center at Megatrend University have opened a photo exhibition titled "Recollections of the People's Republic of China."

A special program to mark the coming of the Chinese New Year has also been organized.

BELGRADE - The Chinese Embassy in Serbia and the Chinese Center at Megatrend University have opened a photo exhibition titled "Recollections of the People's Republic of China" (Secanja Narodne Republike Kine) and staged a special program to mark the coming of the Chinese New Year.

Serbia's Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance said it had detected irregularities at a private college that has been at the centre of plagiarism claims concerning a government minister.

The most important noted flaw is in the field of PhD studies and teaching staff employed at the Belgrade-based Megatrend university.

BELGRADE - The Megatrend University released on Thursday that it has filed the response to the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Control (CAQA) listing the measures implemented to remove the faults concerning PhD theses.

Miljana Radivojevic, a research associate at University College London who was involved in publicising the PhD claims, said on Friday that she is suing former rector Mica Jovanovic and another, unknown person who she accuses of hacking emails that she wrote about the subject.

BELGRADE - Over 1,800 scientists and university staff from Serbia and abroad backed the motion to protect academic honour in Serbia which has been submitted to the Ministry of Education, National Council for Higher Education, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Conference of the Universities of Serbia and the Commission for scientific titles.

Anonymous Serbia told Balkan Insight that it had nothing to do with hacking the emails of Miljana Radivojevic, a professor from University College London who wrote about the revelations that Megatrend University rector Mica Jovanovic did not get his PHD at the London School of Economics, as he had claimed.

Endre Pap, the president of the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance, told BIRN on Monday that Megatrend University would face rigorous checks after the scandal which saw rector Mica Jovanovic resign.

Jovanovic said on Sunday that the scandal that initially erupted after Serbia’s Interior Minister was accused of plagiarizing parts of his PhD thesis, then escalated to force the rector to resign, was "fabricated in order to bring down the state leadership".