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Outreach
https://le.ac.uk/education/outreach
Every month in the school year, the School of Education hosts Schools OUT East Midlands, a LGBT educators’ support, education and campaigning group. Find out more about the group.
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The Fulbright-University of Leicester Postgraduate Award
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/fulbright
The Fulbright scholarship entitles one graduate student from the USA to pursue a one year Masters degree at the University of Leicester, receiving a full tuition waiver and a maintenance award.
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Peer mentoring scheme
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/international/peer-mentoring-scheme
The International peer mentoring scheme helps new students to settle in to life at the University of Leicester, by providing peer to peer support.
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What Sir Alec did next
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/what-sir-alec-did-next
DNA fingerprinting is just one facet of Sir Alec's work - learn more about what has preoccupied him since his revolutionary discovery at Leicester.
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Research degrees
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/research-degrees
A PhD in Education from the University of Leicester is designed to equip professional educators with a wide range of research skills, knowledge, understanding and expertise in their chosen field of research.
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Hamish Simpson
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/hamish-simpson
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Hamish Simpson, former Professor of Paediatrics, who passed away on 4 March 2025, aged 91. Hamish Simpson was born on 23 December 1933 in Glasgow.
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Learning experience survey - Spring 2021 privacy notice
https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/students/learning-experience-survey
Find out more about how the Leicester Learning Institute and Education Strategy Unit handles your data as an applicant and student at Leicester.
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Centre launches to put empathy at the heart of healthcare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/empathy
The role empathy plays in helping to improve patient satisfaction and reduce their pain is at the heart of a new healthcare research centre at the University of Leicester.
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Inspirational student who twice battled sepsis receives First Class degree
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/inspirational-student-who-twice-battled-sepsis-receives-first-class-degree
One of our recent graduates Kishan Vithlani has twice overcome a potentially life-threatening sepsis infection and gone on to achieve a First Class Computer Science BSc. Kishan was born with a congenital heart condition, and had to have surgery twice as a child.
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Getting stuck into mucus to find new treatments for severe asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/mucus-asthma-study-leicester
Leicester is among an international group of experts in respiratory medicine to receive funding to better understand how mucus is controlled in the lungs and how this contributes to severe asthma