Students at this school may have paid 20-30 000 for much of the year – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Last autumn it was announced that owners of private school Westerdals Oslo Act had taken out one hundred million in dividends through ownership group Anthon B. Nilsen.

Now it turns out that the yield is not the only jarring.

Westerdals School of Communication – as school named before they merged to Westerdals Oslo Act in 2014 – have also benefited at least 70 million more in tuition fees than the law allows for a period of ten years.

The newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Students who went on Westerdals School of Communication from 2002-2012, according to the newspaper paid between 20 to 30 000 more in tuition fees annually, without the school has received the necessary exemption from the Ministry of Education to demand so much.

– Sorry strongly

– I would regret strongly that emerge at the former school and we will do everything we can to clean up, says Rector Tine Widerøe to newspaper .

In addition to tuition and dividends, are suspected also that the school has received state aid they should not have had because they have incorrectly reported study, and that pupils have had mistakenly paid Loan Fund support.

After the disclosure of the dividend last year, asked ØKOKRIM into peaks in the Ministry for a meeting on the matter, and several spoke critically about the Ministry’s monitoring of school.

OAG notified namely already in 2013 that the Ministry of Education should go school husbandry closer at the seams.

Got criticism

So the matter was left without any conclusion.

– It does not look as though the Ministry has taken this seriously. As it looks so far, it looks as though they’ve let it go scour. You do not spend two and a half years on something you take seriously, said the head Trond Giske (Ap) of the Parliamentary Education Committee told Dagbladet last fall.

According to Dagens Næringsliv, the school has not hidden on tuition rates that are now questioned. Indeed they sought to raise rates in 2008, but when the application was left unprocessed in the Directorate of Education by mistake.

– Directorate of Education is reviewing its procedures to prevent it happening again. Ministry monitors all Westerdals case, and Parliament has convened a hearing on the matter. We are now considering how we will take the matter further, says Espen Aasen Ministry to DN.

Westermann’s School of Communication was in 2014 merged with NITH and NISS to Westerdals Oslo Act, and it was in connection with the merger the owners Peter and Nicolai Løvenskiold extracted the contentious fight dividend that started the negative media coverage and investigations the school last year.

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