Sandra Borch (Sp) says she will write a new master’s thesis – E24

Borch was not banned from UiT, and thus she sees the opportunity to write a new thesis.

The former research and higher education minister Sandra Borch (Sp) resigned and lost her master’s degree earlier this year.

After the University of Tromsø canceled her master’s thesis due to plagiarism.

In a longer interview with Nordlys on Thursday, Borch says that she will write a new master’s thesis this summer.

– I get far more weekends off and more time to write now. After all, I have 4.5 years approved from law school, so there is only the small master’s thesis left. I actually intend to spend the summer writing it now, she tells the newspaper.

Borch is sitting on a plane on Tuesday evening, but confirms in an SMS that she is running for re-election and is going to do a master’s again.

– If Troms Sp wants me, I make myself available. I am motivated to work for Northern Norway, so the aim is to use the summer holidays and future weekends to write my master’s, writes Borch to VG.

Borch guesses that the master’s degree will be about something within administrative law, according to Nordlys.

– Now I’m going to be very careful with sources and references, the SP politician smiles and adds:

– After all, I only got a D in grade, and not everyone gets the opportunity to take up a new master’s. So now I just have to make it even better.

She further says that she must have a realistic goal, and wants to do it as well as possible.

– And I also believe, with experience from politics, that there are various legal issues that interest me, which means that I am engaged in what I write, and not just write for the sake of writing.

On 19 January this year, Borch resigned as minister. E24 revealed that Borch’s master’s thesis contained passages identical to previously submitted master’s theses written by other students.

Minister for Research and Higher Education Sandra Borch submitted her master’s thesis in jurisprudence in 2014 at UiT Norway’s Arctic University.

According to E24, parts of her thesis must be almost identical to the assignments of a student who submitted his master’s thesis in 2005 at the University of Oslo, as well as another student who submitted his thesis at the University of Bergen in 2009.