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• Disabled Students Commission annual report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/disabled-students-commission-annual-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 Information on issues faced by British disabled students during the pandemic; information on the support received and the challenges ahead.

• 24% of students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds have experience racial harassment in UK universitie

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/24-of-students-from-ethnic-minority-backgrounds-have-experience-racial-harassment-in-uk-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Shocking new report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission has these findings. Get the methodology and facts by downloading the report.

• UNESCO open data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014.  It includes donor, regional and theme based information.

• Sketch Engine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/sketch-engine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We now have a new subscription to Sketch Engine.

• Free speech at UK universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/free-speech-at-uk-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 Read the government paper that was released this week and responses from: Office of the Independent Adjudicator WonkHE Universities UK NUS UCU Russell Group Posted in Criminology ,...

• Global Teacher Status Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/global-teacher-status-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Global Teacher Status Index A new study out this week ranks the status of teachers in various countries.

• University to support gifted mathematics students throughout East Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/our-university-to-support-gifted-mathematics-students-throughout-east-midlands

  Our University has been awarded a grant from the Department of Education to support the academic development of gifted sixth form students studying mathematics throughout the East Midlands.

• University of Leicester named as one of the world’s most sustainable universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/17-worlds-most-sustainable-university-ui-greenmetric

  UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2018 places the University of Leicester 35th in the world and 9th in the UK for sustainability.

• Leicester Professor becomes British Cardiovascular Society President

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/british-cardiovascular-society

  Professor Andre Ng from the University of Leicester has officially taken over as President of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) at its 2024 AGM in Manchester

• Athena SWAN

  https://le.ac.uk/health-sciences/about/athena-swan

  We are committed to providing an excellent working environment for its staff, and in November 2016 we were successful in achieving our second silver Athena SWAN award - acknowledging our commitment to promoting gender equality in the Department of Health Sciences at Leicester.