The fantasist professor

The Herald reports:

A professor has resigned from the UK’s University of Cambridge after the Daily Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed to have published a book.

In a letter online, Jason Arday said he was resigning “with immediate effect” from his position at the university and also Jesus College, citing “unrelenting level of public scrutiny”.

The statement came hours after the university announced it was investigating him following new information regarding his “academic qualifications and honorary appointments”.

Arday, who was a professor of sociology of education, has also been the subject of plagiarism claims after the Telegraph reported that he had been accused of copying parts of his PhD thesis from another student.

There is far more to this story, than the Herald covers.

Arday has rejected each and every claim against him as motivated by racism. When a journalist e-mailed him with questions, he called the Police and accused the journalist of harrassment. And the universities defended him for as long as they could, until the mountain of evidence was too much for them to ignore. The tweet below has a full list of all his fantastical claims and plagiarism.