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  • International students in Arne Rettedals hus
    31.01.2012 

    Increased Satisfaction Amongst International Students

    A recent survey of international students, in their first year of study at the University of Stavanger, reveals that 37, 2 percent of the respondents experience a very high academic standard at the University. In a similar survey of international students conducted in 2009, the corresponding number was 22,6 %. One of the key factors accounting for this increase would appear to be that the standard of English amongst lecturers has vastly improved.

     
  • Pills
    24.01.2012 

    The war on drugs is lost

    Youth are in danger of choosing drugs rather than tackling life, state professor Jan Erik Karlsen at the Department of Media, Culture and Social Sciences at University of Stavanger and Maurice B. Mittelmark, head of Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen.

     
  • Picture of researchers Sindre Dyrstad (front) and Leif Inge Tjelta.
    19.01.2012 

    Sitting it out

    Youngsters in Norway today are not as fit as earlier generations, and even the best perform less well. Researchers now warn that a wave of inactivity could have a major long-term health impact.

     
  • Fisherman at sea (Photo: Edd Meby/Våganavisa)
    06.01.2012 

    Differing dangers at sea

    The probability of being killed at work is 25 times higher for a coastal fisherman than for an offshore worker, according to a study from the UiS. Seafarers also run a high risk of accidents.

     
  • A section of the digital map
    06.12.2011 

    Now it is easier to find your way in the library

    Take a look at our new digital map!

     
  • A surgical operating team using a checklist (Photo: Shutterstock)
    15.11.2011 

    Surgical checklists save lives

    Using checklists to improve work practices has long been normal in the aviation and oil industry. Checklists are now also implemented worldwide in the operating room.

     
  • A surgical operating team (Photo: Shutterstock)
    15.11.2011 

    Creating safer surgery

    Surgical procedures save and improve lives worldwide, but the figures on serious complications and deaths are high. PhD student Sindre Høyland sees ways of reducing these numbers.

     
  • Professor Ole Andreas Engen, professor Odd Einar Olsen and postdoctoral researcher Bjørn Ivar Kruke at UiS (Photo: Morten Berentsen)
    15.11.2011 

    Coming to terms with terror

    How will the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July change the country? That question has been put to three social scientists at the University of Stavanger (UiS).

     
  • Viste boy. Photo: Jenny Barber
    20.10.2011 

    Face-to-face with an ancient human

    A reconstruction based on the skull of Norway’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived outside Stavanger 7 500 years ago.

     
  • Elderly woman with health care personell (iStock)
    19.10.2011 

    If coordination fails

    The Norwegian healthcare services are organized in primary and secondary service levels. According to PhD student Kristin Laugaland at UiS effective and safe care depends on coordination across the two service levels in which transitions across them represent a crucial stage in the recovery of elderly people.