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University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/ignite-launch
The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible, dual learning approach to its courses from September, which will see students take more control over their approach to learning...
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Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/04/28/brexit-how-does-it-look-from-gibraltar/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 28, 2016 In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that , counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP...
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‘We take sexual violence extremely seriously’: Why should universities care about sexual violence?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/03/07/we-take-sexual-violence-extremely-seriously-why-should-universities-care-about-sexual-violence/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on March 7, 2024 Harriet Smailes – Postgraduate Researcher [Content warning: sexual violence – university and local support services: https://reportandsupport.le.ac.
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The Lives of Others, Staff Blogs, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/performingcitizenship/2015/03/26/the-lives-of-others/
Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on March 26, 2015 The Lives of Others – A commentary on Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering (2006) This is a short commentary that I have written for the workshop ‘Bordering Strangeness’ organized by Chris Rumford...
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Dryad Collection – S is for Smock and Sheepskin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/06/29/dryad-collection-s-is-for-smock-and-sheepskin/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on June 29, 2022 As I continue to catalogue the Dryad Collection , some of the books stand out as belonging to a different era of attitudes towards clothes.
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Gene inheritance for higher education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/gene-inheritance/gene-inheritance-higher-education
Observations of the way traits, or characteristics, are passed from one generation to the next in the form of identifiable phenotypes probably represent the oldest form of genetics. Find out more about this topic through The University of Leicester.
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More than a quarter of Greater London greenspaces exceed WHO traffic noise guidelines
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/quarter-greater-london-greenspaces-who-traffic-noise-guidelines
Analysis of greenspaces in the Greater London area by University of Leicester scientists has shown that 28% are affected by road traffic noise above the guidelines advised by the World Health Organization.
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Student Awards 2018
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/student-awards-2018-1
Last night, students and staff gathered at Stamford Court for our annual Student Awards- where the individuals, groups and societies who have made exceptional contributions to the University and the wider community over the past year are celebrated.
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Five potential new businesses as University commercialisation initiative draws to a close
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/ventureversity-final
VentureVersity Live on 27 November showcased 11 projects turning university intellectual property into commercially viable ventures, marking the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the University of Leicester, De Montfort University, and Loughborough University
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What is commercial cider
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/23/what-is-commercial-cider/
Commercial is not equated with money