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• University Provost discusses proposals for universities to run schools

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university-provost-discusses-proposals-for-universities-to-run-schools

  The University’s Provost Professor Mark Peel has written a piece for the Times Educational Supplement discussing the Government’s consultation paper ‘Schools that work for everyone’ – asking whether universities should also be required to run a school.

• Leicester PhD student to play Glastonbury Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/jessie-reid

  Jessie Reid will take to the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury 2024

• Music and street food on offer at Leicesters new Grub Club

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/music-and-international-street-food-on-offer-at-leicester2019s-new-2018grub-club2019

  Have you had a stressful day? Do you like street food and music? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then you should check out Leicester’s brand new ‘Grub Club’- an exciting new opportunity for staff and students to combat stress with tasty treats and music...

• Environment and Society

  https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/chemistry-for-a-sustainable-future/environment-and-society

  Understanding our changing environment is key to the discovery of new technological solutions. Learn more about our research with environmental and societal impact.

• Peatland protection

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/peatland-protection

  Peatlands around the world are being destroyed to make way for plantation development, logging and mining.

• Latest report on stillbirth and neonatal death rates for local populations and individual NHS Trusts and Health Boards across the UK in 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/latest-report-on-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-for-local-populations-and-individual-nhs-trusts-and-health-boards-across-the-uk-in-2016

  Research published today shows that the stillbirth rate associated with twin pregnancy in the UK has reduced by around 44% over the period 2014 to 2016. Rates of neonatal mortality associated with twin pregnancy have similarly reduced by a third.

• Success for Richard III team at prestigious event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/success-for-richard-iii-team-at-prestigious-event

  The team behind the scientific detective story of the decade, the discovery of King Richard III, proved to be a big hit at the Royal Society’s annual display of the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology in the UK.

• Library events for International Open Access Week, 23-29 October 2023

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/10/06/library-events-for-international-open-access-week-23-29-october-2023/

  Events being run by the University of Leicester Library for International Open Access Week, 23-29 October 2023

• New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gibbons-twycross-genetic-endangered

  A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction

• D-Day in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/05/30/d-day-in-the-east-midlands-oral-history-archive/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on May 30, 2024 The 1980s saw many oral history projects start across the UK.