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International students welcome at Leicester - response to Home Office announcement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/international-students
President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leicester Professor Nishan Canagarajah comments on confirmation from the UK Government that the graduate route will remain in place for international students of all UK universities
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Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mary-attenborough
Much of the book has been informed by documents including letters, diaries and photographs held in the care of the University of Leicester’s archive collections.
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Ministers and Midlands universities launch £3m campaign to attract global R&D investment and drive economic growth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/investment
University of Leicester joins seventeen universities from the Midlands in launching the Invest in UK University R&D – Midlands Campaign to drive investment into the region
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Respiratory medicine
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/respiratory-medicine
The University of Leicester is internationally recognised in respiratory research, with strengths in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cough and other respiratory diseases.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...
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Carbon dating and analysis
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/carbon-dating
How old are the bones found under the Greyfriars church? Clearly they can’t be any more recent than the Dissolution of 1538. But if they are earlier than 1485, then they can’t be Richard’s remains.
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Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate
A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Biggest ever Festival of Careers underway
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/biggest-ever2019-festival-of-careers-underway
The fifth annual Festival of Careers kicked off at our University this week, with hundreds of graduate employers due to visit the campus from 3 - 7 October 2016, including Airbus, Nationwide, Jaguar Land Rover, Sky and IBM.
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Insular Manuscripts
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/insular-manuscripts
Leverhulme Trust International Network (2016-2019): IN–2016–029 The Insular Manuscripts project establishes an international research network to advance understanding of knowledge exchange in early medieval Europe through analysis of Insular Manuscripts.
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Most luminous galaxy is ripping itself apart
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/most-luminous-galaxy-is-ripping-itself-apart
In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs up gas across its entire galaxy.