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.
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