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• ExoMars returns first images of new orbit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/exomars-returns-first-images-of-new-orbit

  The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The orbiter’s Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took the stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument’s test period.

• Space Park Leicester to lead key skills development discussion at Ignite Space 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ignite

  Ignite Space conference take place from 5-6 February, where experts from Space Park Leicester will address the pressing skills shortage facing the UK space sector

• Training apprentices: do small firms do it better?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/08/training-apprentices-do-small-firms-do-it-better/

  Posted by Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014 Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have...

• Leicester researchers to evaluate training for health and adult social care staff in England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/oliver-mcgowan

  Researchers from the University of Leicester are to investigate whether the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training, introduced for health and adult social care staff following the death of autistic teenager Oliver McGowan is meeting the needs of people with a learning disability...

• Space sector needs ‘greater imagination’ to tackle skills challenge, expert warns

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-sector-house-of-lords

  Professor Martin Barstow from Space Park Leicester and the University of Leicester contributes to a new House of Lords report

• Botanical Illustrations are not only pretty – they remain relevant today

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/05/12/botanical-illustrations-are-not-only-pretty-they-remain-relevant-today/

  As the University has announced an exciting programme of Summer events at the Botanic Gardens in Oadby, we explore the art of botanical illustration through our Special Collections.

• Northern Lights' growing impact on humanity to be explored in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/northern-lights-impact-humanity-explored

  Dr Darren Wright of Space Park Leicester and the School of Physics & Astronomy to host ‘The northern lights: societal impacts of geomagnetic storms’ on 1 July

• Attenborough Arts Centre joins worldwide Bloomberg Connects programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/attenborough-arts-centre-bloomberg-connects-programme

  Attenborough Arts Centre today announces a new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies to join the worldwide Bloomberg Connects programme.

• Philip Larkins secret selfies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/philip-larkins-secret-selfies

  For the first time, photographs taken by the poet Philip Larkin have been collected together from thousands held by the Larkin archive in Hull. Larkin had a long history with the University.

• Tempest rocket to map quality of the air we breathe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/tempest-rocket-to-map-quality-of-the-air-we-breathe

  In what is thought to be a world’s first, a rocket equipped with air pollution monitoring equipment developed by University scientists from the Department of Physics and Astronomy led by Dr Roland Leigh (pictured) is due to be launched on Wednesday 4...