March 2011
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Going international – and getting there
Waqas Ahmed is studying in the master’s programme in Comparative Social Work. Waqas, from Pakistan, has set his sights on becoming an expert in global social work.
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June 2010
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”The Antarctic will change your view of the world forever”
Some 46,000 travellers visit Antarctica every year. Had these trips really changed the way these people see the world?
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March 2010
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Schoolchildren in the North doing quite well
A recent study done at the University of Lapland shows that schoolchildren in the Barents Region – northern Finland, Sweden and Norway, and Northwest Russia – enjoy better psychosocial well-being than their peers nationally.
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January 2010
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Her trademark – taste sensations
What brought Blanka Schusterova, proprietor of the coffee and
tea emporium Mandragora, to Rovaniemi originally was the opportunity to
spend a year as an exchange student at the University of Lapland. The
North made quite an impression on her.
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