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Reuters/Reuters - File picture shows German Education Minister Annette Schavan at a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, May 23, 2012. Germany's education minister resigned on February 9, 2013, after
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's education minister resigned on Saturday after being stripped of her doctorate for plagiarism, embarrassing Chancellor Angela Merkel and depriving her of a close ally in the run-up to a September election.
Annette Schavan quit four days after the University of Duesseldorf ruled she had "systematically and intentionally" copied parts of her thesis, and withdrew the Ph.D it had granted her more than 30 years ago.
It was the second time in two years that Merkel had lost a cabinet minister in a scandal over academic cheating. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned as defense minister in 2011 after being exposed for plagiarizing his thesis - behavior that Schavan condemned at the time as 'shameful'.
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Well, it would have been
Well, it would have been better for Annette Schavan to honest at the first place, as it could have helped in avoiding such a controversial situation. After all, she had to admit that she plagiarized, and how could she have hided herself when ample proofs were revealing against her plagiarism attempts. Anyone using Turnitin alternative would know that it is not possible to hide something from the eyes of such an high-grade plagiarism checker