Cambridge to review hiring process amid plagiarism row

LONDON: The University of Cambridge said on Friday (Aug 7) that it would be reviewing its hiring process for senior roles as it probes claims of plagiarism by a professor who resigned this week.Jason Arday, who made headlines when appointed as Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, resigned on Wednesday after the university announced a probe into snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.The university in an update on Friday said that "regardless of" Arday's resignation, it would "continue to investigate the circumstances around (his) appointment and tenure"."The findings will feed into a review of the process for the appointment of senior academic roles," it added. Arday had announced that he was resigning with immediate effect both from his university post as profe