Universities chief fired as KI scandal fallout spreads

By Jan Petter Myklebust and Brendan O'Malley. Minister of Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson has fired the country’s University Chancellor and head of the Swedish Higher Education Authority, Harriet Wallberg, and four members of the board of the Karolinska Institute, or KI, in Stockholm in the wake of the Macchiarini affair. Read more...