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Lund University recently shut down a student convicted of rape.
The government wants it to be easier for students who have committed serious crimes to be suspended from colleges and universities, writes Dagens Nyheter.
– They are educations where students during education and later in working life meet people who depend on them, says Matilda Ernkrans (S), Minister of Higher Education and Research, to DN.
An investigation will now review what applies when higher education institutions want to suspend students who are “directly unsuitable” from an education. According to the minister, these are serious crimes such as child pornography, aggravated assault on women and rape.
Decisions to suspend a student are made by the University dismissal committee, after the institution of higher education has submitted a report. The investigator will need to review whether it is necessary to amend the Higher Education Act so that the board has a greater opportunity to suspend students and whether the workload record will also be used to a greater extent.
Recently, the University of Lund expelled a medical student convicted of rape. Another case recently concerns a Karolinska Institutet medical student who has been convicted of child pornography offenses. However, it could not be suspended because the crime was not considered serious enough.
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