Norway’s health minister resigns over thesis plagiarism allegations
Norway’s health minister, Ingvild Kjerkol, resigned on 12 April after allegations of plagiarism in her masters thesis. She has been under investigation by Nord University in Bodø for irregularities in the 2021 thesis in health technology since the end of January. Kjerkol, who has been a politician since 1995, was appointed minister of health soon after the Labour Party came to power in October 2021. Last week the Nord University appeal board reported that Kjerkol had 43% text similarity in her thesis and that it believed she had deliberately cheated.1 The board had detected 19% similarity with other texts when the assignment was submitted in 2021, leading …