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A new UK Climate Information Service formed to address the climate emergency
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/nceo-climate-information-service
The UK Earth Observation Climate Information Service (EOCIS) launched this week (7 March), led by the University of Leicester headquartered National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), working with a consortium of world-renowned, UK research institutions.
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University of Leicester and Alsama Project to establish a world-first certification to support displaced youth in accessing higher education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-alsama-project-world-first-certification-displaced-youth
New certification will enable displaced youth to apply to higher education institutions worldwide and seek employment, supporting students in overcoming disrupted and/or informal learning due to conflict or disaster
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Launch yourself into the space industry with new conversion course for professionals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/space-missions
Led by University of Leicester and run in partnership with space law practice Alden Legal and Meridian Space Command, the new course covers the entire space mission lifecycle from conception through to operations
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University pioneers revised attitudes at first Menopause Lets Talk About It workshop
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/university-pioneers-revised-attitudes-at-first-menopause-workshop
Over 90 staff from across the University, including staff based at Leicester’s hospitals, joined colleagues in the Charles Wilson Building’s Belvoir City Lounge for an open and frank discussion about the menopause.
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The Nineteenth Century Series
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/research/19th-century-series
Co-edited by Associate Professor Julian North and Professor Joanne Shattock, both of the Victorian Studies Centre, the Nineteenth Century Series aims to develop new approaches in scholarship and criticism on 19th-century literature and culture.
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Region’s universities sign first-ever agreement to tackle local issues together
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/universities-partnership
The full agreement is available online and its publication was announced at an event held at LCB Depot, where university leaders joined Sir Peter Soulsby, Councillor Nick Rushton and leaders from Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, Rutland County Council, and...
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CPD Fundamentals of Space
https://le.ac.uk/courses/cpd-fundamentals-of-space/2025
A primer to put you on the launchpad to a career in the space industry.
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Equality and Diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/11/29/equality-and-diversity-an-example-of-socratic-questioning/
Socratic Questioning is a useful tool to further develop a critical analysis. Here it is used to consider how Equality and Diversity might be considered in a learning and teaching context.
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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Sue Townsend (1946-2014)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/16/sue-townsend-1946-2014/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 16, 2014 It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the death of one of our depositors, Sue Townsend, the creator of the Adrian Mole diaries and one of the most popular British novelists of the late...