Top Academic Accused of Making False Claims to Win Education Award

(Beijing) – The president of a top university in the eastern province of Anhui allegedly lied about progress made during his tenure in an application for a prestigious prize given by a newspaper affiliated to the Ministry of Education, a peer revealed.

Liang Dong, President of Hefei University of Technology (HUT) won the

"outstanding university president award for reform and innovation" in 2015, after claiming he had led efforts to improve teaching quality at the school with a new curriculum management system launched in 2013.