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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Chris Osuh

Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser

Dr Nathan Cofnas, in glasses and a plaid blazer, stands before Cambridge University buildings
Ghent academics alleged there had been a lack of transparency around Nathan Cofnas’s appointment. Photograph: Adam Gerrard/Mirrorpix

Nathan Cofnas, the academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent University, who say he has a “far-right agenda”.

Cofnas secured a postdoctoral research role “on the future of liberalism” at Belgium’s Ghent University in March. Weeks later, Ghent’s department of philosophy and moral sciences handed a 19-page statement to university officials, setting out why it believed it was “improbable” that Cofnas was the best candidate.

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