False PhD Claim
Brake submitted a grant application to the Research Councils' Procurement Organisation in 2006 in which he falsely claimed to have a PhD. In 2007, Brake filed a harassment claim against an academic who found evidence that he had forged this qualification. The harassment suit was allowed and the unnamed academic sacked by the University of Glamorgan. After 2009, the matter became public knowledge, particularly pressed by Professor Peter Coles of Cardiff University, but Glamorgan still refused to sack Brake. Finally, on 31 March 2010 Brake was declared 'redundant' with the minimum of publicity and his employment with the University of Glamorgan was terminated.
Read more about this topic: Mark Brake
Famous quotes containing the words false and/or claim:
“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902)