Hoel has been state secretary for both Sandra Borch and Ola Borten Moe (Sp), who have had to leave the government in the last six months. At 10 o’clock he will be announced as the new minister for research and higher education, news is informed. It was TV 2 that first reported this. Several in the sector have wanted Hoel as the new minister. He himself has a background in higher education, and was a professor of history at Høgskulen på Vestlandet before becoming state secretary in the Ministry of Education in 2021. Predecessor Sandra Borch resigned as minister on Friday after it was discovered that parts of her master’s thesis were identical to assignments submitted of former students. news has checked the master’s degrees and other assignments of several well-known politicians in recent days. We have not found plagiarism in the doctoral thesis Hoel delivered in history at NTNU in 2009.
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Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel becomes new minister – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country
