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Forthcoming events
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/pgce/events
If you're interested in training to teach, we recommend attending an event run by the University of Leicester or one of our partners. These are an opportunity to chat to those running the PGCE course and find out more about what the course involves.
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Collections development strategy (Archives and Special Collections)
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/special-collections-strategy
Introduction The University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains archives, manuscripts and rare books owned by or loaned to the University of Leicester.
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Digitally General: why digital is not always the answer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/10/12/digitally-general-why-digital-is-not-always-the-answer/
Posted by bcox in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 12, 2018 Making something digital does not always make it better. Why? It not the digital itself that it actually the issue.
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Birmingham Black Oral History Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/birmingham-black-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes...
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LGBTI inclusion index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/lgbti-inclusion-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 United Nations Development Programme has just devised the first indicators on how to measure LGBTI inclusion.
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Who was Richard III?
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/who-was-richard-iii
A brief primer on the last Plantagenet king of England and his links with Leicester.
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Where do my fees go?
https://le.ac.uk/about/info/facts-figures/where-fees-go
We want to be as open as possible about where your fees go. Undergraduate home students invest £9,250 per year (£9,535 from 2026/27) in their University education and it’s only right that we show how we spend it.
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A Literal Escape Room: an experiential approach to study skills
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/09/27/a-literal-escape-room-an-experiential-approach-to-study-skills/
Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 27, 2018 Developed by Mark Van Der Enden, Tracy Dix, and Alex Patel The challenge and rationale… The problem with ‘study skills’ workshops are that, typically, they are boring,...
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Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/11/30/buy-nothing-day-critical-management-in-action/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 30, 2013 On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...