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  • The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/

    Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...

  • Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum

    What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...

  • Free public event explores the 1911 ‘All India’ cricket tour of England

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/30-cricket-event

    A fascinating chapter in cricket history will be explored at a free public event on Tuesday 1 October when Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor of colonial urban history, discusses the first ever Indian tour of England in 1911.

  • Are we entering a new age

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/are-we-entering-a-new-age

    Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology has been interviewed by Academic Minute discussing the Anthropocene and whether mankind has entered a new age.

  • Leicester and JWST

    https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/james-webb-space-telescope/leicester-and-miri

    Leicester scientists and engineers were the mechanical engineering lead for the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.

  • Leicester to host talk by UK activist who joined Kurdish force against ISIS in Northern Syria

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-to-host-talk-by-uk-activist-who-joined-kurdish-force-against-isis-in-northern-syria

    UK activist Kimberley Taylor, who has joined Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Syria, will be one of the speakers at an event being held on International Women’s Day at the University and chaired by Dr Omer Tekdemir from our School of History, Politics and International Relations.

  • A culture of inclusion, dignity and respect

    https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/edi/dignity-respect

    Browse the dignity and respect at Leicester framework and associated policy documents outline with clear definitions and examples, what unacceptable behaviours are and the processes in place to address, deal with and report them.

  • Business leaders to offer expert advice on scalability and growth

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/business-leaders-to-offer-expert-advice-on-scalability-and-growth

    Global leadership development company Vistage, with over 23,000 members across the world, is holding its Open Day on Friday 28 October at the King Power Stadium in Leicester where more than 150 CEOs, MDs and business leaders from across the UK will be convening as part of the...

  • Locating the choir within the church

    https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir

    A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.

  • Museum and Society

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society

    Museum & Society was launched at the University of Leicester as an independent peer reviewed journal which brings together new writing by academics and museum professionals on the subject of museums. Find out more.

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