Leaders of Hanoi National University of Education 2 on January 28th announced the above information. The person whose name was removed from the doctoral steles is the head of a department in the English Department, who admitted to using a fake degree. The school suspends teaching to lecturers.
Accordingly, when it was discovered that the head of this department used an illegal doctoral degree, the school temporarily suspended him from work and reviewed his entire degree.
The school is coordinating with functional agencies to verify and clarify" - the school leader said.
At the honoring ceremony for 12 new doctors in 2025 organized by Hanoi National University of Education 2 on January 27, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Huy, Rector of the school, also mentioned this matter. Specifically, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Huy said that recently, the school has discovered and handled a case of lecturers using illegal doctoral degrees.
He believes that this is not only a violation of the law, but more seriously, it also violates scientific integrity - the core ethical foundation of scientists. Therefore, in addition to being handled in accordance with the law, the name of this lecturer has been removed from the university's doctoral steles.
Through this, the Rector of Hanoi National University of Education 2 emphasized the message: The doctoral degree is not just a title, but honor. Honor cannot be borrowed, cannot be replaced, and even more cannot be exchanged. Scientific integrity is the ultimate moral boundary of researchers; once that boundary is crossed, all other achievements become meaningless.
The reflections related to the incident originated from sharing on a forum about scientific integrity.
According to the post, the image of the doctoral stele placed in the "Doctoral Tree Garden" at Hanoi National University of Education 2 shows signs of being erased at 2 locations. Specifically, among hundreds of doctors of the school whose names are engraved on the stele, the names of two people at locations No. 214 and 257 have been erased.
Along with this image, the posts also provided information related to two people whose names were deleted, one of whom was suspected of using fake doctoral degrees.
