Through a parable of a student collapsing requiring emergency hospitalization at school, this tale satirizes bureaucratic systems' disregard for human life in emergency situations. In the story, the principal, citing strict regulation adherence, demands cumbersome ambulance documentation, ultimately steering the issue toward proposing 'purchasing an ambulance for the school.' The author thereby criticizes using people's lives as political leverage, with 'critical comments will face fines' hinting this is veiled commentary on real events.
This article introduces the ‘Academic Ethics Regulations for Researchers’ and its supplementary documents, which were promulgated by the National Science Council (NSC, now the Ministry of Science and Technology) around 2012. The article emphasizes that academic research should be based on high self-regulation to earn societal trust, and notes that China then lacked clear academic ethics regulations. To address this, the NSC provided ‘Seven Explanations’ and ‘Regulations,’ covering researchers’ basic attitudes, data handling, co-author definitions, peer review, conflict of interest avoidance, and explicitly listing improper behaviors (fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, etc.). The article explains that the NSC used ‘misleading, severe’ as criteria for academic misconduct and reviews past cases, most of which involved plagiarism. However, the article concludes by stating that the links to these regulations have since been delisted by the Ministry of Science
The government has decided to cancel 'Calculus' from the original items of the Patent Agent Exam. Although the author hoped that physics and chemistry subjects would be cancelled along with it, this is still a start of progress, although the total number of exam subjects has actually increased. This article lists the detailed content of the draft amendment to Article 6 of the Patent Agent Exam Regulations, including changes in subject names, the addition of 'Patent Agency Practice,' and adjustments to the types of exam questions.