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• Enter the Dragon: Modern Chinese History, 1839-1989

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2353

  Module code: HS2353 The formation of a nation is often a very complex and tumultuous journey, and China is no different.

• Country House Technology

  https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology

  The owners of country houses, together with the vast armies of staff they employed, formed the background of rural society in Britain until at least 1914.

• Management and Labour

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/lm1521

  Module code: LM1521 Module Outline This module addresses the questions 'how do we know what different occupations are worth?', 'What is meant by the labour market?', 'Why do workers need to be managed?', before tackling them by introducing key...

• Standing Together

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/edi/standing-together

  The narrative thus far has been about standing together against unacceptable behaviours. The ultimate aim has to be moving towards standing together for something more positive.

• Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy

  The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.

• UCAS applications

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/how-to-apply/applications

  Applications to UK universities must be made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for entry to full-time undergraduate degrees. All available courses from all universities are listed on the UCAS website. Find out more about how to apply.

• University supporting literacy skills through reading buddies and new books for schools

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/books

  Volunteers from the University of Leicester have donated boxes full of brand-new books to local primary schools. It is part of a wider scheme that sees one hundred school-based volunteers support pupils at Uplands Junior L.E.A.

• Historical directories

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/historical-directories

  a digital collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century trade and local directories for family, local and urban historians

• Doctoral loan

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/other-funding/doctoral-loan

  If you’re applying for a research degree (PhD) at Leicester, then you may be eligible to apply for the new Government-funded Doctoral Loan.

• Hours of driving and watching TV lower IQ scores research suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/hours-of-driving-and-watching-tv-lower-iq-scores

  A doctoral student from our University has commanded global media coverage for a study that found that driving for more than two hours a day appears to steadily reduce intelligence.