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Employment Policy Action Facility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/employment-policy-action-facility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 Launched by the International Labour Organization, the Employment Policy Action Facility (EPAF), is a website that contains materials for employment policy makers.
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Window into China
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/window-into-china/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website. It is collecting pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The emphasis is on security and foreign policy.
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Education for all 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/education-for-all-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 The latest report for 2015 from UNESCO monitors progress towards achieving worldwide access to 6 goals.
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Exams and certificates
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/exams
Find out more about the accreditation offered Languages at Leicester such DELE, JLPT and British Sign Language exams.
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Event to explore how arts and culture can better reflect our diverse society
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/event-to-explore-how-arts-and-culture-can-better-reflect-our-diverse-society
A panel of industry experts will discuss how we can make workforce diversity the responsibility of everyone in arts and culture, and why it is important to support BAME role models and leaders, during an event organised by our CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural...
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Astronomers to offer illuminating insights at national event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/leicester-tronomers-to-offer-illuminating-insights-at-national-event
Around 500 astronomers and space scientists who will be gathering in Llandudno, Wales, from 5 to 9 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2015).
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Ethnic differences in need for heart pacemakers may have genetic link
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/ethnic-differences-in-need-for-heart-pacemakers-may-have-genetic-link
Researchers have found evidence to show that South Asian people (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) are less likely to require a pacemaker for an abnormally low heart rate compared to white people of European origin.
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Potential new targets for cancer treatments identified by Leicester research team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/potential-new-targets-for-cancer-treatments-identified-by-leicester-research-team
An international consortium of scientists led by a group from the University has announced a new advance in understanding the mechanisms of cancer and how to target it more effectively with new treatments.
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Good cholesterol doesnt always lower heart attack risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/2018good2019-cholesterol-doesn2019t-always-lower-heart-attack-risk
Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are usually at lower heart disease risk.
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Curiosity in Isolation at Edinburgh and Glasgow
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2020/05/02/curiosity-in-isolation-at-edinburgh-and-glasgow/
Curiosity Rover, Edinburgh locality, HiRISE image