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• Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 7

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/page/7/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Researchers suggest targeting freshers could halt spread of meningitis

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/researchers-suggest-targeting-freshers-could-halt-spread-of-meningitis

  A campaign targeted at students arriving at university for the first time could hold the key to reducing the spread of meningitis and septicaemia, say researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.

• Where is the Love in engineering

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/where-is-the-love-in-engineering

  The UK is predicting a ‘skills gap’ of approximately half a million engineers by 2022, mainly due to retirements, according to Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, head of our Department of Engineering.

• Local students begin to take their LEAP into University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university

  On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).

• Net Zero Plus

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change/net-zero/plus

  The University of Leicester is committed to achieving net zero.

• South Africas Foreign Policy All Things to All States

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/south-africas-foreign-policy-all-things-to-all-states

  A University of Leicester lecturer has shared his expertise of South Africa with leading thinkers and policy makers at a Chatham House event in London.

• Leicester academic talks Journalism Down Under

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/leicester-academic-talks-journalism-down-under

  Tor Clark (pictured), Associate Professor in Journalism in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, has just returned from a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand Tor spoke to audiences in Perth, Melbourne and Wellington, during a two-week visit to the continent...

• Laser tag puppy room and inflatable assault course return to campus to help destress students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/laser-tag-puppies-and-inflatable-assault-return-to-help-de-stress-students

  Our Students’ Union has organised another jam-packed programme of events designed to alleviate student stress during the exam period which runs from 3 – 31 May 2017.

• Teaching resources and research

  https://le.ac.uk/education/outreach/teaching-resources

  Browse our list of resources and research available for teachers and anyone studying or working in education who wants to learn more about tackling homophobia in education.

• Disparity in cultural sector funding deprives regional museums libraries and heritage sites

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/disparity-in-cultural-sector-funding-deprives-regional-museums-libraries-and-heritage-sites

  An academic from the School of Museum Studies has suggested that disparities in funding for the cultural sector at a regional level results in cultural institutions and programmes in many areas of the UK being deprived of vital resources.