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Is UK Higher Education Sustainable?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/is-uk-higher-education-sustainable/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 This question was considered by the Higher Education Commission who found the answer far from clear. Read their discussion of future options.
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YouTube Newswire launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/youtube-newswire-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 A new Youtube channel in association with social media site Storyful which aims to present verified eye witness citizen journalism films.
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EUScreen
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/07/euscreen/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2012 Free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. http://www.euscreen.
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New Media Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/new-media-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 A weekly report that captures the leading commentary of news-focused blogs and social media sites and compares their subjects to that of the mainstream press. http://www.journalism.
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LIFT-UP PRETERM
https://le.ac.uk/timms/collaborations/lift-up-preterm
The LIFT-UP Preterm project aims to create innovative tools and methods to promote RCTs in very preterm populations using the RECAP Preterm platform.
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EAGLE
https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/eagle
The EAGLE project aims to achieve renewable energy targets needed to accelerate market penetration of Renewable Energy Systems.
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Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/women-are-more-fairly-funded-in-the-social-sciences
Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they receive grants that are actually slightly larger than those won by men.
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Award nomination for Centre for Medicines sustainability credentials
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/award-nomination-for-centre-for-medicine2019s-sustainability-credentials
The University’s landmark Centre for Medicine building is one of three projects shortlisted for the ProCon Leicestershire Awards Sustainable Development of the Year Award 2016.
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Leicester cited among global elite
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-cited-among-global-elite
The University of Leicester has been cited among the top global universities in the UK. U.S. News has released the third edition of its annual Best Global Universities rankings today to allow comparisons of universities around the world.
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Biggest ever Festival of Careers underway
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/biggest-ever2019-festival-of-careers-underway
The fifth annual Festival of Careers kicked off at our University this week, with hundreds of graduate employers due to visit the campus from 3 - 7 October 2016, including Airbus, Nationwide, Jaguar Land Rover, Sky and IBM.