Higher education minister resigns over plagiarism scandal

Norway’s higher education minister resigned on Friday 19 January after being accused of copying, errors included, from other students’ work in her masters dissertation, reports The Brussels Times.

“I have made a terrible mistake,” Sandra Borch said during an emergency press conference. “I used texts from other dissertations without providing any citations, and for that, I am sorry,” she confessed.

The scandal is particularly embarrassing as, last week, her ministry had taken a self-plagiarism case – involving a student who reused parts of her own text – to the Supreme Court after the student was exonerated on appeal.
Full report on The Brussels Times site