Norway's higher education minister was accused of copying other students' work, including errors, in her master's thesis and tendered her resignation on Friday.
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“I made a big mistake,” Sandra Borch said during an urgently called press conference. “I used text from other memoirs without citing a source, I’m sorry,” she admitted.
Previously, Norwegian media reported disturbing similarities in Sandra Borch's 2014 student memoirs and other texts, particularly the memoirs of two other students, without citing or referring to them.
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The case is all the more embarrassing given that his ministry decided last week to refer to the Supreme Court the case of a student who was barred from appealing for self-plagiarism because she reused excerpts from one of his own texts.
Sandra Borch was elected from the centrist party, a formation that primarily represents the interests of the rural world. Last year she was appointed Minister for Higher Education after holding the agriculture portfolio within the central government between 2021 and 2023. LEFT.
His legal dissertation, submitted to the University of Tromsø ten years ago, dealt with safety regulations in the oil sector.
His resignation follows the resignations of several other members of the same government in recent months, generally over questions of conflict of interest.