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By Wu Pai-hsuan
and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with workers author
and CNA
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) yesterday introduced that it could terminate funding for a analysis challenge and get better beforehand disbursed subsidies after investigators discovered that scholar athletes had been inappropriately compelled to offer blood samples.
The challenge was cohosted by former National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) girls’s soccer coach Chou Tai-ying (周台英), who allegedly pressured gamers to take part in analysis between 2019 and final 12 months.
Chou allegedly threatened college students with the lack of commencement credit in the event that they refused.
Photo: CNA
The NSTC stated it could get better beforehand allotted subsidies of NT$2.46 million (US$81,725) from NTNU and NT$800,000 from National Central University and scale back NTNU’s annual administration price ratio by 2 p.c, or about NT$9 million.
Chou and fellow challenge chief Chen Chung-ching (陳忠慶) have additionally been suspended from council-funded tasks for 5 and 4 years respectively, it added.
They wouldn’t be permitted to use for subsidies or grants, or to hold out any analysis tasks beneath the council, it stated.
The case got here to mild after Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Pei-yu (陳培瑜) uncovered the incident in November final 12 months, prompting the council to ask NTNU to launch an investigation.
An advert hoc group was shaped a month later, which initiated a assessment of potential breach of educational ethics in July, it stated.
The council additionally arrange an interdepartmental activity drive with the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare to research whether or not comparable circumstances exist in sports activities or analysis involving human members, it stated.