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Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute suffers fall in reputation ranking

Sweden's Karolinska Institute (KI) has tumbled in a prestigious international reputation ranking released on Wednesday.

Published: 31 May 2018 11:34 CEST
Updated: 31 May 2018 16:34 CEST
Stockholm's Karolinska Institute suffers fall in reputation ranking
The reputation rankings were dominated by the US. Photo: Anonymous100000/WikiCommons

Stockholm's KI, which selects the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, saw a significant drop in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Education Rankings 2018 which was released on Wednesday.

It now ranks in the 61-70 bracket, in other words, it ranked between 61st place and 70th worldwide. This is down from the 51-60 bracket over the past two years, and 45th place in 2015. 

The tumble mirrors a similar misfortune for Karolinska in September, when the university dropped ten places in a similar education ranking. 

Phil Baty, the editor of THE, said at the time that the 2017 tumble could likely be blamed on the scandal hitting the institution involving celebrity Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The surgeon was fired from KI over accusations of misconduct after several of his trachea transplant patients died.

READ MORE: Macchiarini's seventh transplant patient dies

Elsewhere in Sweden, only the Uppsala University managed to crack the top 100 in the 2018 reputation rankings, sneaking into the 91-100 bracket. 

The reputation rankings were dominated by the US, with 44 institutions in the top 100 and Harvard University at the top of the pile.

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Elsewhere, the UK could boast 9 institutions in the top 100, with China and Germany offering six each. 

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Wellbeing is up in Italy despite economic troubles, study finds

Italians are feeling better overall despite struggles with job insecurity and poor work-life balance, according to new figures.

Published: 19 December 2019 15:54 CET
Wellbeing is up in Italy despite economic troubles, study finds
Biking around Italy's Lake Garda. Photo: Depositphotos

Italians are famed for having a supposedly relaxed and healthy lifestyle. And new figures released by national statistics bureau Istat on Thursday show that Italians' wellbeing is actually on the increase.

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“Over the last year the indicators report an improvement in wellbeing,” the national statistics agency said in its latest annual BES report.

The report aims to look beyond the usual GDP-based economic picture of how Italy is progressing, by considering economic, social and environmental phenomena.

“Over 50 percent of the 110 comparable indicators have registered an improvement,” ISTAT said.

Fruit for sale at a market in Rome. Photo: AFP

Two in five Italians reported “high levels of satisfaction” with their lives, and overall subjective perceptions of wellbeing had increased by 1.8 percent overall since last year, Istat found.

Italians are also feeling more positive, the study found, with the number of people describing themselves as “optimistic” increasing by 1.8 percent and the number of self.confessed pessimists dropping by two percent.

Istat said the biggest increases in wellbeing were registered in parts of northern Italy, while the lowest scores were found in the centre-south.

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In the south, reported levels of satisfaction with life were on average around 12 percent lower compared to the North.

The study noted that the wellbeing index was pushed down by economic factors in many areas, particularly by unemployment, job insecurity, and issues with work-life balance.

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