Published 20 January 2024 at 08.14
Foreign. Sandra Borch, Minister for Research and Higher Education in Norway, has recently promised to crack down on cheating students. Now she is resigning after it was revealed that she herself cheated in her master's thesis.
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Sandra Borch, who represents the left-liberal Center Party, wrote her master's thesis in 2014 in jurisprudence.
Norwegian E24 revealed on Friday that her essay contained text jokes copied directly from other students' work.
On Friday evening, Sandra Borch held a press conference where she admitted the plagiarism and announced her resignation .
– I made a big mistake. I understand that this error is not consistent with being responsible for this regulatory framework, she said.