Search
-
History in the Classroom
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2360
Module code: HS2360 How should history be taught in schools? Should the focus be on learning about the key events of ‘Our Island Story’ or a thematic overview of global trends? Does the right sort of history create the right sort of citizen? Who should decide what is taught:...
-
Departmental prizes
https://le.ac.uk/english/study/departmental-prizes
English offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate prizes after our Boards of Examiners at the end of each academic year. G. S. Fraser Prize Winner of a poetry competition adjudicated by staff in English.
-
New project explores art and DNA at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/new-project-explores-art-and-dna-at-leicester
Leicester-based artists Ruth Singer and Gillian McFarland have begun working with Dr Turi King, Reader in Genetics and Archaeology, on a project which explores creative and visual responses to DNA research.
-
Award-winning Irchester Field School brings Roman history to life for local community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/heritage-hub-irchester-field-school-mj-award
A University of Leicester partnership with North Northamptonshire Council has won an MJ Award.
-
New University film, 'Revisiting the Harms of Hate', available now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/revisiting-harms-hate-film
The sequel to a celebrated short film, produced by the University of Leicester, exploring the impact of hate crime is now available to watch.
-
Operating Department Practice Apprenticeship
https://le.ac.uk/courses/operating-department-practice-apprenticeship/2025
ODPs play a crucial role in a patient’s care – working alongside nurses, doctors and anaesthetists from the lead up to surgery right through to recovery. This apprenticeship degree covers all aspects of the job, setting you up for a career in the profession.
-
Operating Department Practice Apprenticeship
https://le.ac.uk/courses/operating-department-practice-apprenticeship/2026
ODPs play a crucial role in a patient’s care – working alongside nurses, doctors and anaesthetists from the lead up to surgery right through to recovery. This apprenticeship degree covers all aspects of the job, setting you up for a career in the profession.
-
Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...
-
New videos help mark 50th anniversary of Department of Media and Communication
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-videos-help-mark-50th-anniversary-of-department-of-media-and-communication
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.
-
History and campus
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history
See how far we’ve come since we were first founded as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921 - from getting our Royal Charter in 1957 to the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012.