It is associate professor Anne Kamilla Lund at Nord University and professor Lars Klemsdal at the University of Oslo who in recent weeks have reviewed the master’s thesis Ingvild Kjerkol wrote together with a fellow student in 2021. On 20 January this year, news and several other media found several sentences in the minister of health’s thesis which are identical to another master’s thesis. Soon afterwards, it became known that Nord University was going to look at her master’s thesis again. On 29 January, Lund and Klemsdal were appointed by the university to “reassess the thesis in relation to plagiarism”, according to the assignment letter news has obtained access to. According to what news learns, the two have now concluded and submitted their report to the examination office at Nord University . Plagiarism check In the assignment letter, the examiners are asked to emphasize several factors in the assessment of the master’s thesis: Complete reading of the entire thesis Assessment of the result of the plagiarism check Note from the original examiners explaining the work in the original examination. The two appointed experts originally had until 19 February to reach their conclusions, according to the assignment letter. news does not know what the conclusion is, because the proceedings are exempt from public disclosure. As part of the proceedings, news learns that a so-called clarification meeting has been held with Kjerkol and her co-author. May be sent to the Board Depending on the conclusion, the case may now be sent to the Board for Student Affairs at Nord University. The tribunal has its next meetings on 6 March and 10 April. If the experts have concluded that there are no grounds for suspecting plagiarism, the case can also be dismissed. Kjerkol has previously announced that she herself will announce the outcome of the investigation at Nord University. When asked by news whether she has been notified of the outcome of the first review of her master’s thesis, her political advisor Per Anders Langerød replies in a text message: – Nord University is investigating the matter. We have no comments beyond what has been given so far about this. For Ingvild Kjerkol’s part, the outcome will be made known. Correction: In the first version of this case, news wrote that the experts had concluded in the first stage of Kjerkol’s plagiarism case. This has now been changed to “assessed complete”. The change was made on 5 March at 17:38.
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Experts have assessed the first stage of Kjerkol’s plagiarism case as complete – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country
