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Realising Opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/post-16/progression-programmes/realising-opportunities
Are you thinking about going to university when you finish school or college? Not sure where you want to study? Would you like to know more about what options are available to you? As well as find out how to receive lower offers from leading universities? If so, then the...
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Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/18/commemorating-samuel-whitbread-1758-1815/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 18, 2015 ‘I deny the insane proposition that peace is more dangerous than war’: Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 By E.J.
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School of Business talk to ask whether statistics matter in a world of fake news
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-talk-to-ask-whether-statistics-matter-in-a-world-of-2018fake-news2019
For an upcoming lecture, National Statistician John Pullinger will discuss how statistical communication between those creating and using statistics can be improved.
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Jupiters jawdropping north pole unlike anything encountered in Solar System
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/jupiters-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system
Last week NASA's Juno spacecraft sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.
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Dr George Pohl
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/george-pohl
We have learned, with regret, of the passing of Dr Jurgen (George) Pohl MBChB, MRCP, who helped to establish the Leicester Medical School in the 1970s, serving as Senior Lecturer in Medicine until his retirement in 2001.
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Physics Special Topics: Santa’s Christmas magic is Real
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/24/leicester-physics-students-prove-santas-christmas-magic-is-real/
Physics Special Topics: Santa’s Christmas magic is Real
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The necessary discomfort of soft intelligence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/10/07/the-necessary-discomfort-of-soft-intelligence/
Posted by Graham Martin in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on October 7, 2015 It’s comforting to have hard facts and figures so that we can feel like we know exactly what went wrong and what went right.
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Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/fruit-air-pollution-lung-function
Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam by Leicester scientists
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New Leicester research demonstrates the migrant work ethic exists in the short term
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/new-leicester-research-demonstrates-the-2018migrant-work-ethic2019-exists-in-the-short-term
The received wisdom that migrant workers have a stronger ‘work ethic’ than UK-born workers is proven for the first time, in a new study of Central and East European migrants, from our School of Business.
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The Country House in History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha7510
Module code: HA7510 You will begin your study of the country house with this core module looking at the evolution and function of such houses from the medieval development of the castle and courtyard house and the conversion of former monasteries to the present day.