Former Minister of Health and Care Ingvild Kjerkol and her fellow student were not successful in their appeal against the decision which condemned them for cheating on a master’s thesis. This is stated by their lawyer in a press release on Saturday evening. NTB mentioned the case first. In April, Nord University censured Kjerkol (Ap) for cheating for a master’s thesis she submitted with a fellow student in 2021. Kjerkol and the fellow student complained about the decision. The Joint Board of Appeal heard the case on Wednesday 30 October, but did not want to make the decision public. On Saturday, Klausen writes that they have been sent the decision. – They have upheld the conclusion of the Board for Student Affairs at Nord University, writes lawyer Marianne Klausen in the law firm Føyen. The lawyer says that Kjerkol and the fellow student complained about the decision because they wanted to clarify students’ legal certainty in such cases. – The panel at Nord University based its decision to cancel the master’s thesis of Kjerkol and the fellow student on the same factual basis on which the examiners approved and censored the master’s thesis in 2021. Klausen says to news that she has no further comments. news has been in contact with Kjerkol, who does not wish to comment on the matter.
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