Germany's Education Minister Anette Schavan has been stripped of her Doctorate degree after a study
was launched into allegations that part of her 1980 thesis in Philosophy was
plagiarised. The choice was taken by a committee of academics at Dusseldorf's
Heinrich Heine University.
Inside a similar case in 2011, former Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg,resigned from his post after revealation he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis.
Inside a similar case in 2011, former Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg,resigned from his post after revealation he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis.