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Dr Paul Campbell appointed Director of Leicester’s new Institute for Inclusivity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/liihe-director
Dr Paul Campbell has been appointed as the Director of the Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (LIIHE), an interdisciplinary...
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Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners
A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.
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Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/wordsworth-exhibition
A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the University of Leicester has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...
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National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/queer-heritage
A partnership supporting museums and heritage bodies to reveal and publicly present LGBTQ+ histories – of which the University of Leicester is a...
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Inclusive curriculum will ensure “HE is fit for the 21st century”, says Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/inclusive-education
An inclusive curriculum will create a Higher Education system that is “fit for the 21st century”, a leading academic at the University of...
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Student competition brings Leicester playwright’s alter ego to life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/edna-welthorpe-competition
A popular creative writing competition launched by the University of Leicester is once again open for entries – this year supported by the...
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Leicestershire Institute of Technology bid reaches final stages
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/leicestershire-institute-of-technology
Experts in cyber and space technology are bidding to create a £13m ‘skills factory’ in Leicestershire to revitalise the region’s economy.
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Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester
Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.
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Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy
The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website.
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Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/local-papers
Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester...