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Nationwide strikes start across UK universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/20-strike-info
National strike action across higher education institutions starts again today, after members of the University and College Union (UCU) voted in favour of action relating to changes to the USS pension scheme, pay and conditions.
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New statistics show number of children admitted into intensive care with COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/picanet
New figures released today by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester reveal the number of children in the UK who were in paediatric intensive care units with COVID-19.
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A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/02/05/a-price-worth-paying-short-term-economic-recovery-and-the-loss-of-a-generation/
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014 Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be...
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Measuring Child Poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/01/measuring-child-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2012 New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries just released by UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 10 http://www.unicef-irc.
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Palitha Edirisingha
https://le.ac.uk/people/palitha-edirisingha
The academic profile of Dr Palitha Edirisingha, Associate Professor at University of Leicester
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Sixth Doctoral Award success for student researching assessment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/sixth-doctoral-award-success-for-student-researching-assessment
Katerina Young has been awarded a highly prestigious TOEFL Doctoral Grant to support her research in writing assessment, supervised by Professor Glenn Fulcher in the School of Education.
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Leicester choir wins University Gospel Choir of the Year competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/leicester-choir-wins-university-gospel-choir-of-the-year-competition
Leicester University Voices (LUV), a choir comprising members of the Leicester University Gospel Choir (LUGC) has won the national finals of the University Gospel Choir of the Year competition, which took place on Saturday 14 March at the Hippodrome, North London.
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Clearing out student accommodation reaps rich rewards for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/12-bhf-collection
A charity scheme that encourages students to donate their unwanted items at the end of term instead of throwing them away, has saved an incredible 39 tonnes of items from being thrown away in Leicester.
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Leicester astrophysicist takes on key role in international space organisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/martin-barstow-essi
New Executive Committee for Earth-Space Sustainability Initiative (ESSI) includes Professor Martin Barstow from the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester.
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Topics in Applied Econometrics
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ec2011
Module code: EC2011 Moving on from the statistical techniques you have completed during first year and your Introduction to Econometrics, this module will dive into the wider uses of mathematical models in real world situations, and their relevance to polices that have been...