Here is advertising private school entitled students are not allowed to use – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Forty alumni have chosen to go to court against Bjørknes college after they last got told that they can not use the title nutritionist.

They believe namely that the school – which is owned by the controversial school group Anthon B. Nilsen – has run misleading marketing.

There has collected several examples.

Among other things they show a screenshot from the website tautdanning.no the school advertised for study in 2012 under the title “How to become a nutritionist?”.

The title is also in the students’ contracts. “As a nutritionist educated at Bjørknes college gets you …,” says the student contract to a girl who today can not call himself a nutritionist. The contract is from 2011.

Protected

The problem is that the title was protected by the Quality Reform in 2009 – and that none of the students have permission to use it today. It has made several of the forty ex-students have been laid off from their jobs or been forced to lay down their private practices.

Therefore, they have gone to the compensation case against the school.

– Our point is that we should never started this education if we had known about this, and we have not been informed about it from the campus as one would expect, say, a student Dagbladet has been in contact.

Bjørknes College believes the lawsuit is without merit.

“Used the term generally”

They have been able to look at the examples students refers. In an email to Dagbladet writes school’s lawyer, Paul Kvernaas law firm Haavind, the school we provide specific comments on the documents directly to the Oslo District Court.

“On a more general basis stated that Bjørknes study entitled” Bachelor nutritional physiology. ” This is what the program is marketed as, this is what appears from student contract with each individual and it is this that stands on the diploma. Bjørknes has not promised the students any other title. Bjørknes However, in some cases, used the term nutritionist more generally, similar authorities, employers and organizations. Although the title is formally protected, the term nutritionist is still widely used on people with academic education in nutrition, “writes Kvernaas in the email.

The lawyer points out that the title was protected in connection with the large degree reform as master and bachelor degrees were introduced. The change was so undramatic, writes Kvernaas, that the case never was circulated for comment and it was not the subject of specific information initiatives from the Ministry of Education page.

“This is probably the reason why communities, as the Directorate of Health, continued to use concept more widely by regulatory amendment. Bjørknes was first in 2015 to know that protection of title shall be problematic for students, “writes Kvernaas.

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