Betssy Chavez is backed by her university after being accused of plagiarizing thesis: “The truth is the daughter of time”

The Minister of Labour and Employment Promotion, Betssy Chavez, thanked her university (UNJBG) for denying its alleged plagiarism of 49% in his undergraduate thesis. The parliamentarian also commented that “truth is the daughter of time”, due to the statement that her university published on its official Twitter account.

“'Veritas filia temporis', The truth is the daughter of time. I thank my alma Mater the Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University for their statement. #UNJBG #Tacna #Basadrina”, you read.

After a specialized review, it was determined that up to 12 sheets of the research 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,” said the researcher at the Universidad Científica del Sur, Percy Mayta, after reviewing the content of the research allegedly written by the congresswoman of Free Peru, Betsy 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 addition, the university statement said that it had not been copying or plagiarism. This one reads as follows:

1. As a result of the journalistic information provided on the case, it has been verified that in 2015, the then graduate of the Professional School of Law and Political Science carried out the procedures for obtaining a professional degree as a lawyer, complying with the regulations on Degrees and Degrees of the Faculty of Legal Sciences and Business; and the university.

2. Being part of the fifth superior, the graduate, within the normative framework of that date, supported the thesis: “PRISON TREATMENT AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE RECIDIVISM AND HABITUALITY OF PRISONERS OF THE POCOLLAY PRISON, DURING THE YEAR 2012″

3. There is currently no software that, in the strict sense of the word, detects plagiarism in an academic and scientific publication: there are only textual similarity detection software.

4. Our university will ensure strict compliance with current standards for obtaining professional degrees and degrees. We also support the degrees and professional degrees awarded to graduates of this higher house of studies.

ADVANCE OF ELECTIONS

Bill 1507/2021-CR was presented to the Bureau of Parties of the Legislative Branch on March 22 and has the signatures of Chávez and the support of the members of the Democratic Peru Bank, which she is a member of.

The initiative is signed by Carlos Zeballos, Luis Kamiche, Nieves Limachi, Guillermo Bermejo and former Prime Minister Héctor Valer.

The constitutional reform seeks to include a clarification in article 115 which specifies the order of succession in the event of temporary or permanent impediment of the head of State.

“In the event of vacancy or resignation of the President of the Republic, the Vice President or the President of Congress immediately calls for general elections for a new term of government,” says Betssy Chavez's initiative.

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