February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Chalmers":
Business & Money: 21 Dec 11
Decisions by former Saab owner General Motors weren't the cause of the Swedish automaker's bankruptcy, according to a new study, which also found that former Saab management is partly to blame.
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Science & Technology: 25 Nov 11
A Swedish man who wears a "silver suit" to protect himself from mobile phone radiation had demanded that local officials protect his health by creating a “radiation-free zone” that may leave thousands without mobile phone coverage.
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Travel: 22 Sep 11
From lakeside castles to elk safaris in the north, a holiday in Sweden has lots to offer. Here are some ideas of what to do.
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Education: 19 Sep 11
Reports of young Swedish teens being subjected to humiliating, sometimes sex-themed games, have once again put the subject of high school hazing back into the spotlight in Sweden, The Local's Joel Linde explains.
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Science & Technology: 24 Aug 11
Despite constant improvements, Google Translate continues to lose its way – often in laughable ways – when it comes to translating certain place names from Swedish to English.
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Science & Technology: 12 Aug 11
A Swedish company has become the first in the world to develop a so-called active safety test site, which it is hoped will ultimately drastically reduce the number of car accidents.
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Society: 6 Apr 11
The Supreme Court in Sweden ruled Wednesday that it is both chance and skill that decide the outcome in the poker game Texas Hold’em.
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Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges.
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Society: 23 Feb 11
An expert poker player gave Sweden's Supreme Court judges a lesson on the art of playing cards on Tuesday in a case examining whether Texas Hold'em is a game of skill or chance.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Dec 10
While Sweden is left asking why after experiencing its first suicide bombing, Fulbright scholar and US Muslim Dr. Abdul-Majeed Azad calls on the country to deploy its history of neutrality to build bridges across Europe to defeat the radicalisation of Muslim youth.
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Society: 21 Sep 10
A research team drawn from three Swedish universities is planning to study how children from various cultural backgrounds communicate with horses.
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National: 13 Sep 10
A new University of Gothenburg study has revealed that an increasing number of Swedish companies have changed their working language from Swedish to English.
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Education: 18 Aug 10
Three Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute (KI) and Uppsala and Stockholm Universities, made the top 100 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Sport: 26 Jul 10
Sweden's Carl "Big Dog" Pettersson captured the PGA's Canadian Open golf title on Sunday in Toronto, firing six birdies in eight holes to overtake American Dean Wilson for a one-stroke triumph.
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Education: 23 Jul 10
The student housing shortage appears to be worse than ever for the upcoming autumn session, Sweden's National Union of Students (Sveriges förenade studentkårer, SFS) reported on Friday.
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National: 15 Jun 10
There’s rather a British feel in 'Little London' this week, as the UK celebrates its historic ties to Sweden's second city.
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National: 24 Apr 10
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is seeking to distance itself from an annual student parade after the organizing committee gave the thumbs up to drawings deemed sexist and "totally unacceptable" by the university's president.
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Education: 5 Apr 10
Karolinska Institutet (KI), Handelshögskolan in Stockholm, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet – SLU) top the 2009 rankings of Swedish institutions of higher education.
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National: 17 Mar 10
The 33-year-old student held on suspicion of the massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has been released.
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National: 16 Mar 10
A 33-year-old man arrested in connection with a massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has expressed "deep regret" over his actions, as a wave of copycat threats spread across the country.
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National: 15 Mar 10
A man has been arrested for threatening a student massacre at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
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Education: 1 Mar 10
Almost 300,000 students signed up for courses at Swedish universities in 2009 - the highest number ever, according to new statistics published on Monday.
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Lifestyle: 27 Jan 10
What’s on in Sweden: Antiques and Reggae in Stockholm, The International Film Festival in Gothenburg, and Ian Brown swaggers into Malmö.
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Society: 20 Jan 10
Several dozen university students occupied a brewery near Gothenburg in western Sweden on Tuesday in their long-standing effort to convince the brewery to build a pipeline to carry beer to the students’ union.
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Science & Technology: 21 Jul 09
Iranian nationals have been banned from Swedish university programmes with ties to nuclear and missile technologies following a warning from the country’s security service Säpo.
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Travel: 15 May 09
Sponsored article: Having long been defined by its industrial and maritime history, Göteborg has since reinvented itself. The old ports and warehouses have been replaced by cafes, bars, and one of the liveliest cultural scenes in the region.
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Travel: 24 Apr 09
Sponsored article: The beautiful coastal town of Västervik once built warships for King Gustav I. These days luxury yachts are more in evidence, writes Jennifer Heape.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Mar 09
Foreign-born graduates of Swedish universities suffer discrimination in the Swedish labour market and are often under-paid and over-qualified, a new report shows. Action is demanded to meet the challenges of an ageing workforce.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 08
By emphasizing welfare programmes over work and entrepreneurship, Sweden makes it harder for Iraqi immigrants to achieve success in their new country, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 08
Just because a party calls itself Green doesn't necessarily mean it has the most environmentally friendly policies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Society: 11 Nov 07
Uppsala and Lund Universities are among the 200 best institutions in the world, according to a new British survey.
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National: 10 May 07
The 1994 sinking of the Estonia ferry could have been caused by an explosion, according to two teams of researchers looking into the incident on behalf of the Swedish government.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Mar 07
Academic knowledge has been sidelined in Swedish education over the past few decades. A return to more grading is welcome, but more action is needed, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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National: 19 Aug 06
Stockholm's Karolinska University is one of the fify best universities in the world, according to a new survey from a Chinese university. Eleven Swedish universities make the top 500.
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National: 28 Jun 06
A commission led by Göran Persson says that Sweden will not be an oil-free zone by 2020, but claims that society will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jun 06
With those Midsummer parties coming up, you can feel free to let yourself loose on the herring section of the smörgåsbord. In fact, you should probably be eating it every day, a new study shows.
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Society: 17 Mar 06
More than half of first-year students on some science and engineering courses at Chalmers University in Gothenburg flunked their first maths exam. Five years ago, 75 percent passed.
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Business & Money: 11 May 05
Sony Ericsson's handsets come out on top in a new survey of phone radiation, while Nokia phones fall behind. But scientists are still divided on how risky mobiles are to health.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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