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Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/05/29/evelyn-waugh-reader-writer-collector/
An idiosyncratic reflection by Robert Murray Davis on a Waugh symposium held at the Huntington, Pasadena, over 5-6 May 2017.
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Senate regulation 4: Regulations governing student obligations
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-4
Downloadable version of Senate Regulation 4 (PDF, 163KB) Attendance and Engagement with Learning and Teaching Events 4.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...
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Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...
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How do you win the research game? Hide the results you don’t like!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/01/22/how-do-you-win-the-research-game-hide-the-results-you-dont-like/
Posted by Simon Lilley in School of Business Blog on January 22, 2015 Head of School, Professor Simon Lilley and Director of Research, Professor Martin Parker , discuss the problems of comparing apples, pears and potatoes, in the ranking of business and management research.
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EU students
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/identity-check-visa-checkpoint/visa-checkpoint/eu-students
If you’re an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen you can continue to travel to the UK to study on courses of up to 6 months in duration without needing a visa. You can cross the UK border using a valid passport which should be valid for the whole time you are in the UK.
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Chinese language, culture awareness and social etiquette
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/chinese/chinese-etiquette
Chinese Language, Culture awareness and Social etiquette course for those learning Mandarin or planing to travel there.
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Life on the home front
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front
Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.
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History graduate discusses experience covering game changing Rio Paralympics for Channel 4
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/history-graduate-discusses-experience-covering-2018game-changing2019-rio-paralympics-for-channel-4
A graduate from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has discussed his role in covering the Rio Paralympics for Channel 4 – and how the event could be a ‘game changer’ in reforming attitudes towards disability in Brazil.