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• Report suggests delaying school entry for preterm babies may not be the answer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/report-suggests-delaying-school-entry-for-preterm-babies-may-not-be-the-answer

  A new report launched today suggests that prematurely born babies are more likely to have learning difficulties at school age, and the risk increases the earlier they are born.

• Leicester's cultural 'renaissance' includes Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/04-lcc-brochure

  Every city should have an Attenborough Arts Centre. This is the gallery, venue, workshop, and performance space that wears its culture as lightly as the silk parachutes and floor cushions in its experiential sessions.

• Visibility

  https://le.ac.uk/the-technician-commitment/plan/visibility

  6-12 months Technicians’ Conference – the technical staff consulted were very enthusiastic about having a conference to highlight and celebrate their achievements.

• Waging war on cultural terrorism

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/cultural-terrorism

  Professor David Mattingly explores the importance of protecting archaeological heritage sites from cultural terrorism, and the efforts being undertaken to preserve and record in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Literary Leicester to host one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British Fiction Gwendoline Riley

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/literary-leicester-to-host-2018one-of-the-most-distinctive-voices-in-contemporary-british-fiction2019-gwendoline-riley

  The University of Leicester will welcome award-winning novelist Gwendoline Riley to campus on Friday 17 November for the tenth annual Literary Leicester festival. For the event, taking place between 6.15 and 7.

• New book by Leicester graduate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/new-book-by-leicester-graduate

  A new book about interfaith diversity has been co-written by a University of Leicester graduate. Riaz Ravat, a graduate in European Politics, has worked with Tom Wilson to write Learning to Live Well Together, Case Studies in Interfaith Diversity.

• Start creating opportunities in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/start-creating-opportunities-in-leicester

  Attenborough Arts Centre, the University of Leicester’s arts centre, has been chosen by leading arts education charity, Children & the Arts, to join its UK-wide Start arts programme.

• Expert discusses popularity of ITVs Love Island with the BBC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/expert-discusses-popularity-of-itvs-love-island-with-the-bbc

  The phenomenon that is ‘Love Island’ on ITV2 was discussed by an academic from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology today (Wednesday, 12 July) on BBC Radio Leicester.

• Study in Nature provides potential for cancer treatment targets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/study-in-nature-provides-potential-for-cancer-treatment-targets

  Researchers for our Department of Chemistry have been involved in new research, published in Nature, that provides potential for new targets for developing cancer treatments.

• Seventeen novels in seventeen years Leicester alumna Adele Parks to share her journey to the bestsellers list

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/seventeen-novels-in-seventeen-years-leicester-alumna-adele-parks-to-share-her-journey-to-the-bestsellers-list

  Leicester alumna and author of seventeen bestselling novels Adele Parks will be speaking at Literary Leicester on Wednesday 15 November.