2024-04-16 13:30:15
Norway’s Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol is resigning after her master’s thesis was found to be partially plagiarized and contained 43 percent similarity between the texts. The scandal became the second in a short time. In January, Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Sandra Borch, was forced to announce her resignation after admitting that she had borrowed without citing the work of other students in her master’s thesis.
As reported by Day.Az, information that Kjerkol’s master’s thesis from 2021 was rejected by the review committee of the Nord University in Bodø began to spread on Thursday. Following demands for her resignation from several parties, Norway’s health minister announced on Friday that the information was correct. The dissertation was written jointly with a classmate.
“We didn’t intend to plagiarize. Although it hurts that you don’t have the trust, you have to accept the fact that the board doesn’t have the same opinion,” says Kjerkol.
During a press conference on April 13, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said he had come to the conclusion that Ingvild should resign as minister.
Ingvild Kjerkol said she had not yet considered whether she would appeal the case to the Joint Complaints Board.