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• 22,000 children aged 10 and 11 are obese

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/22000-children-aged-10-and-11-are-obese/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 …according to the latest report from the Local Government Association. The House of Commons also released the report: House of Commons Health Committee Childhood obesity: Time for action.

• 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.

• Grounds for appeal

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/appeals-complaints/academic-appeals/grounds

  The grounds for appeal are given in the Regulations.

• Leicester invites space enthusiasts to join the ‘new space’ revolution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/leicester-invites-space-enthusiasts-to-join-the-2018new-space2019-revolution

  Leicester invites space enthusiasts to join the ‘new space’ revolution Leicester invites space enthusiasts to join the ‘new space’ revolution|Tickets now available for Leicester’s first SpaceUp ‘unconference’ taking place 17-18 November.

• Expedition 325: Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes

  https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2010-11/great-barrier-reef

  January – March 2010 The GBREC expedition is designed to establish the course and effects of the last glaciation in reef settings that developed in tectonically inactive areas located far from glaciated regions.

• Dr Simon Leader

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/simon-leader

  Roger Dickinson and Jim McKenna write: We have learned, with great regret, of the sudden and unexpected death of Dr Simon Leader at the age of 53.

• New programme to open up opportunities for medical training

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-programme-to-open-up-opportunities-for-medical-training-1

  The University, in partnership with a local charitable trust, has launched a new Foundation Year course for its Medical degree programme aimed at increasing access to the medical professions from less-represented group.

• Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/uranus-aurora

  University of Leicester astronomers confirm the existence of an infrared (IR) aurora on Uranus, providing insights into how magnetic field on ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune behave.

• More doctors to be trained in Leicester than ever before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/more-doctors-to-be-trained-in-leicester-than-ever-before

  More much-needed doctors are to be trained at the University of Leicester following the Government’s announcement of the biggest ever expansion of undergraduate medical training.

• The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/28/the-nasa-jaxa-global-precipitation-measurement-mission/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 28 October 2020 Leicester precipitation scientists Daniel Watters and Alessandro Battaglia outline how a NASA-JAXA mission addresses the challenge of global measurement of precipitation.