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Where is the Love in engineering
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/where-is-the-love-in-engineering
The UK is predicting a ‘skills gap’ of approximately half a million engineers by 2022, mainly due to retirements, according to Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, head of our Department of Engineering.
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Event to celebrate slavery abolitionists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/event-to-celebrate-slavery-abolitionists
The achievements of two 19th century Leicestershire women who championed a fight against slavery are to be celebrated at a free event at the Attenborough Arts Centre on Saturday 26 September between 2-3pm.
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University signs Memorandum of Understanding with NATO Defense College
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/our-university-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-nato-defense-college
Our University and the NATO Defense College (NDC) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), it has been announced today.
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Materials Innovation Centre (MatIC)
https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/facilities/materials-innovation-centre-matic
Materials Innovation Centre (MatIC) is a long-term strategic partnership between TWI and the University of Leicester, one of the world’s top universities. MatIC focuses on materials characterization, materials modelling and novel materials development.
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Ten creative commissions
https://le.ac.uk/colonial-countryside/about/creative-commissions
The Colonial Countryside project has a partnership with Peepal Tree Press who have commissioned ten writers to write about each participating house in the project. Learn more about the commissioned writers and houses.
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University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/uliihe
The University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (ULIIHE) seeks to establish itself as the lead centre for research informed best-inclusion practice and for measurable change across the sector in the UK and globally.
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Smoke-free campus campaign
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/smoke-free-campus
Being a considerate smoker Life on campus is a life for all. Our campus is a place for everyone to enjoy.
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Award-winning University of Leicester film Harms of Hate revisited a decade on
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/harms-of-hate
University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies will revisit its award-winning short film The Harms of Hate, a decade on.
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Leicester leads report into stillbirth and neonatal death rates in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-leads-report-into-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-in-the-uk
A research team led from the University of Leicester has identified large differences across the UK in the numbers and rates of babies who die, even after taking account of known factors that influence the rate of death such as poverty, mother’s age and ethnicity.
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New cave discoveries shed light on Native and European religious encounters in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-cave-discoveries-shed-light-on-native-and-european-religious-encounters-in-the-americas
A project led by archaeologists from the British Museum and our University has discovered remarkable evidence which shows how the first generations of Europeans to arrive in the Americas engaged with indigenous peoples and their spiritual beliefs deep inside the caves of a...