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full screen Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Sandra Borch, who announced on Friday that she is leaving her cabinet post. Picture from last summer. Photo: Joakim Halvorsen/NTB/TT
Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is calling on his cabinet ministers to review their degree and master theses, after his research minister was caught plagiarizing parts of his thesis.
– I can assume that what is written in the CV and assignment corresponds to reality. We must be able to trust that what they say they have delivered and the grades they have received are valid, says the prime minister at a press conference.
He believes that it was right that the country’s minister for research and higher education, Sandra Borch, left her post.
– It was a sad message to receive, but it was the right decision, and it was taken immediately, he says.
Borch resigned on Friday after an audit revealed that she copied parts of her master’s thesis about ten years ago.
– She has made mistakes that are incompatible with being minister for research and higher education, Støre says at a press conference.