Samia Rahman, the Dhaka University teacher who was penalised for stealing content in a research paper, has applied seeking early retirement from the institution.
Professor Abul Mansur Ahmed, chairman of mass communication and journalism, confirmed the news.
He said:”She filed the application a week ago. application is with the registrar’s office and the syndicate will decide about it.”
The Report could not reach Samia for her comment over the issue as she is abroad now.
The Dhaka University Syndicate demoted her from associate professor to assistant professor of the department in January 2021.
In December 2016, Samia and Marjan co-authored an eight-page research paper titled 'A New Dimension of Colonialism and Pop Culture: A Case Study of the Cultural Imperialism,' published in the University's Social Science Review journal.
Later, it has been emerged that they had plagiarised nearly five pages of an article titled "The Subject and Power" by French philosopher Michel Foucault, published in the University of Chicago's Critical Inquiry journal in 1982.
