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Positive boost in National Student Survey cements top position for University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/national-student-survey-results-leicester
Leicester is celebrating a top 15 position among UK institutions overall for student satisfaction, according to Times analysis, with positivity rising in all 26 core questions of the survey.
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Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability
https://le.ac.uk/cehs
Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CEHS) is a University of Leicester initiative to develop new areas of research that build on existing work in the environment, health and sustainability.
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Sir David Attenborough highlights destruction of the natural world within a generation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/sir-david-attenborough-highlights-destruction-of-the-natural-world-within-a-generation
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough opened a new £1.5million galleries wing at Attenborough Arts Centre – the building championed by his late brother Lord Attenborough.
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£750,000 funding for seismic sensors at University of Leicester to shake up environmental science
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/seismic-sensors
A new, upgraded sensor array at the University of Leicester will allow scientists to monitor seismic activity in some of the world’s most challenging environments, such as in glaciers, landslides and volcanoes.
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Re-use of public sector information
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/re-use-public-data
public task statement setting out the functions carried out by the University Library under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015
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University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth
The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.
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Cooking Inauthentically: An Experiment with Flaounes – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/07/cooking-inauthentically-an-experiment-with-flaounes/
Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of cooking flaounes, a celebration Easter food from Cyprus, the challenge of finding "authentic" ingredients and the sense of occasion created by making a celebration food.
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings confirm Leicesters place among top 1 of universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/times-higher-education-world-university-rankings-confirms-leicesters-place-in-top-1-of-universities
A definitive table of world University rankings has seen the University of Leicester maintain its rank among the top 1 per cent of universities in the world.
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University data allows members of the public to search for land use in their area of the UK based on postcode
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-data-allows-members-of-the-public-to-search-for-land-use-in-their-area-of-the-uk-based-on-postcode
For the first time, members of the public can now search for how the land is used in their local area of the United Kingdom based on their postcode, thanks to research conducted by our Centre for Landscape and Climate Research (CLCR).
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Molecular and Cellular Sciences
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/bs1081
Module code: BS1081 This module will lay the groundwork, providing an understanding of how cells function, communicate, divide, and maintain themselves.