The academic who triggered the row over Sir Tim Hunt has not been sacked after the Mail revealed she made apparently false claims about her career – however she has been ordered to ‘update her CV’.

Connie St Louis, a lecturer in science journalism at London’s City University, was the first to report allegedly ‘sexist’ remarks by Sir Tim that led to him losing his job.

However, on Saturday the Mail revealed that Mrs St Louis had made a number of dubious claims about her own credentials on the City University website.

Updating her CV: Connie St Louis (left), a lecturer in science journalism at London’s City University, was the first to report allegedly ‘sexist’ remarks by Sir Tim Hunt (right) that led to him losing his job

Yesterday, the university issued a statement admitting that it had now ‘spoken to’ Mrs St Louis and would ‘help her update her CV’. But it did not explain what her academic qualifications were.

Sir Tim, a Nobel prizewinner, resigned from his honorary professorship at University College London after Mrs St Louis’s report of his allegedly sexist remarks at a conference in South Korea.

As anticipated: Sir Andre Geim, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on graphene, said he had not expected City to take any action against Mrs St Louis

He was said to have told the conference that his ‘trouble with girls’ was they ‘cry’ when you criticise them and ‘fall in love’ with their male counterparts.

The report triggered a worldwide wave of condemnation, but he insisted he was joking.

The questionable professional claims made by Mrs St Louis include that she regularly writes for national newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and the Independent.

Yet digital archives for these papers stretching back 20 years contain no bylined articles by Mrs St Louis.

Further claims she writes for the Guardian appeared to be limited to two articles – one appearing only after the Sir Tim Hunt affair.

Meanwhile an online CV posted by Mrs St Louis said she had an ‘upper second’ BSc (Hons) in applied biology – although it was not clear where this was awarded.

Leading academics described Mrs St Louis’s apparent falsification of her CV as a serious matter yesterday.

Alan Smithers, a professor in education at the University of Buckingham, said: ‘When you get on your high horse, you must make sure you have four strong legs.

‘If she has misdescribed her academic qualifications, that would be serious. You would expect the university would want to investigate.’

A spokesman for City University only said: ‘We have spoken to Connie and are satisfied that her academic qualifications are correct.

‘We will be working with her to update her profile page to include more recent publications and professional activities.’

Sir Andre Geim, himself a Nobel prizewinner for his work on graphene, said he had not expected City to take any action against Mrs St Louis.

No Vice Chancellor would take on an ethnic-minority militant feminist Sir Andre Geim, Nobel prizewinner

He said: ‘No Vice Chancellor would take on an ethnic-minority militant feminist. Those are not humble Nobel laureates who can be forced to resign quietly.’

In a statement yesterday, Mrs St Louis, 58, claimed the allegations against her were ‘inaccurate and misleading’.