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Study finds ethnicity, mental health and age predict NHS workers’ plans to quit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/manish-pareek
Around 43 per cent of NHS workers who took part in a recent study have considered leaving their role or taking early retirement.
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UK university returns century-old gesture by gifting books to Smithsonian
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/smithsonian
The University of Leicester returned a 100-year-old gesture from the Smithsonian during a ceremony to cement the institutions’ transatlantic partnership.
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UK Space Agency backs Space Park Leicester based start-up
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/messium-space-park
Agri-tech start-up Messium based at Space Park Leicester has been accepted on to one of the UK Space Agency’s most prestigious business support programmes
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Dryad Collection – basket weaving
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/30/the-dryad-collection-basket-weaving/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection , I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural...
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University sports teams ready for Varsity clashes across Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/varsity
The first Varsity ‘season’ took place on one day in March 2000, when football, rugby, hockey and netball teams from both universities faced off against one another across the city.
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Report suggests delaying school entry for preterm babies may not be the answer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/report-suggests-delaying-school-entry-for-preterm-babies-may-not-be-the-answer
A new report launched today suggests that prematurely born babies are more likely to have learning difficulties at school age, and the risk increases the earlier they are born.
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Study in Nature provides potential for cancer treatment targets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/study-in-nature-provides-potential-for-cancer-treatment-targets
Researchers for our Department of Chemistry have been involved in new research, published in Nature, that provides potential for new targets for developing cancer treatments.
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New editor for only journal dedicated to British immigration law
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/jianl
A University of Leicester expert in migrants’ rights and immigration law has been appointed editor of a highly-regarded international journal.
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Human Rights and Global Ethics MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/human-rights-and-global-ethics-ma/2026
The gap between the promise and reality of universal human rights is worrying. Strides are being taken, but there’s still much to do. This Masters in human rights and global ethics addresses this challenge on both a conceptual and practical level.
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Scientists observe galaxy ‘stealing material’ to feed black hole
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/16-interactions-galaxies
An image of the 20-arcsec square region around W2246 An image of the 20-arcsec square region around W2246 - about 1/100 of the diameter of the full moon. The black contour lines show the ALMA data, while the orange greyscale shows the Hubble Space Telescope image.