At midnight yesterday, the deadline out to accept the settlement as Westerdals Oslo ACT had offers its alumni. It is now clear that the 796 has taken advantage of the opportunity this confirms communications manager Vibecke Osfoss by Westerdals Campaign.
– We are pleased that so many want to end this thing now, which we think is a benefit of everyone involved, says Osfoss Campaign.
Students have been divided into two camps on this issue, and the one camp has rattled sabers and announced lawsuit against Westerdals, partly because they believe a settlement offer that school has made, has been too low. Campaign has spokesperson for the students who are going to sue, Erling Løken Andersen, said that they thought that between 600 and 700 came to go to trial.
The answer now is that around 520 alumni are going to go to trial, says Løken Andersen.
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– the more than 500 students which now goes to court against Westerdals are prepared for a long fight against the school. They are not primarily motivated by money, but by what is right and wrong. We look forward to having the court decides Westerdals’ illegal over billing and disapproval of several study lines, says Løken Andersen Campaign now.
– Not angry with the current management
Erling Løken Andersen Underlines that the former students are not angry at the current leadership or teachers.
– This is a serious matter, where Westerdals both have illegally over charged students through 10 years, but also driven study lines that have not been approved by neither NOKUT or State Educational Loan Fund. In reality, students this applies gone 3-year daytime course. Pupils their rage is not directed at school good teachers or current management, but the owners and the former management at the school, he said.
Westerdals notes that there appears to be a trial of over billing tuition.
– we regret that there seems to be a trial, but we are prepared for it. Our lawyer thinks that the college will be well in a judicial review of the claims. The economic outcome of legal proceedings, we consider to be very uncertain for the individual, says Vibecke Osfoss by Westerdals.
Number-nonsense
The total number of alumni who have been offered a settlement of Westerdals is around 1200, state Osfoss Campaign.
– There are 1,241 who have registered in our contact form, and thus have received a settlement offer. But it turned out that quite a few of those who had signed up were from former NISS and NITH because they had misunderstood and thought that provision also applied to them. When we remove the registered who are not entitled to a refund, we dropped to about 1,200, she said.
When you add together the 796 who have agreed to the settlement with the roughly 520 former students have said they will proceed with the case, one obtains a total number of 1316.
Erling Løken Andersen says the campaign that his figures on the number of students who are going to go to trial, still voices.
– Yes, we must remember that this not only applies to illegal over billing tuition. It’s just one of those illegal things Westerdals made. With us also represented students who have gone lines that are not approved by NOKUT and Loan Fund, which Westerdals now accused of finance guards for. So figure of 1316 sounds just fine out for us, he said.
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