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Norway Pol With Fake Degrees - WilliamW - 07-05-2010
If you can get elected president with a fake birth certificate no reason to think you can't work a government paper shuffling job with fake degrees. Especially if you have "extensive administrative experience" with a political party.
Fifteen years on fake degrees. Great mileage! Why screw around with expensive tuition or dodgy unaccredited degrees when you can lie about having degrees from prestigious schools like LSE and Queen Mary for free? Works for politicians worldwide.
NORWAY: Top bureaucrat claimed false degrees
Quote:Jan Petter Myklebust
04 July 2010
Issue: 131
A high-ranking official at the Norwegian Regulation Authority for Health Personnel has quit following allegations she used fake degrees 15 years ago to be appointed.
Liv Løberg, whose husband is the security chief in Norway's parliament, was responsible for authorising the qualifications each year of hundreds of health professionals, including many foreign citizens.
As one of the regulation authority's four directors, Løberg allegedly produced false documentation when applying for the position 15 years ago. She claimed to have a bachelor degree in economics from Queen Mary College in London in 1989 and a degree in nursing.
She also had a document certifying she was awarded a masters degree in health economics from the London School of Economics in 1990, and a certificate from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration recognising these degrees as equivalent to the Norwegian degree siviløkonom.
In fact, Løberg only had an assistant nurse qualification from Sweden although she did have extensive administrative experiences in one of the major Norwegian political parties.
The authority is responsible for granting professional authorisation to applicants that allow them to practise their profession. More than 20 health professions exist and the most known are doctors, nurses, psychologists, dentists and so on.
Norwegian newspapers reported that several hundred foreign health professionals might have gained access to the country's labour market on false or insufficient documentation. Norway suspended authorisation of medical doctors from Pakistan in May.
Top health officials reacted angrily to news of Løberg's resignation and called for stricter control of the authority's operations. Løberg admitted the fraud and is being questioned by the police. She faces a possible jail sentence.
University officials said it was rare that they received requests from employers hiring professional staff to check whether their degrees were authentic. Observers believe this now might change.
Gerrit Løberg is reported to have known nothing of his wife's false documents.
RE: Norway Pol With Fake Degrees - Martin Eisenstadt - 07-05-2010
Quote:Liv Løberg, whose husband is the security chief in Norway's parliament...Gerrit Løberg is reported to have known nothing of his wife's false documents.
Reminds me of someone...can't quite place it. Something about a self-appointed "expert" in crime whose wife was selling mutant lab animals to the public for food...whose colleagues were diddling mass murders....whose collaborators were adjudicated anti-Christian bigots and civil rights violators....who made thousands and thousands of posts at a website owned by a gay boy pornographer....posted people's SSN's on his website....got sued for slander and extortion....told people he was a government agent....
RE: Norway Pol With Fake Degrees - Ryan Steele - 07-07-2010
Well, come on! If they can do the job without a degree, then why flip out when you find that they don't have one? That's the problem with education, it doesn't prepare you for anything but is a requirement for everything.
RE: Norway Pol With Fake Degrees - Don Dresden - 07-07-2010
Ryan Steele Wrote:Well, come on! If they can do the job without a degree, then why flip out when you find that they don't have one? That's the problem with education, it doesn't prepare you for anything but is a requirement for everything.
As a practical matter that probably is true. If it was important enough to sack her for then it should have been important enough to check in the first place.
On the other hand, she lied about her credentials. Being in a position of public trust, she is a proven liar who can't be trusted to do her job. It goes to the very essence of her relationship with the taxpayers who pay her salary.
Obviously the other factor at work here is that she was a political appointee. She had the connection to get the affection without inspection. She probably didn't need to lie about her credentials in the first place, since she was going to get the job anyway.
Personally, I like it when pols get caught in a lie, even in distant lands. And lies about education are about the easiest to expose. One email to the registrar and all fables go up in smoke. Who can forget the "expert" who boasted "two RA degrees" that turned out to be an AA from his local JC and a 110-day wonder in humanities?