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• Is homework pointless?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 43

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/43/

  Academic Librarian.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/43/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• University of Leicester launches international Pathways programmes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/foundation-courses

  The University of Leicester is launching three international year 1 programmes in August as well as a STEM International Foundation Year from September.

• ‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/worms-space-experiment-biological-effects-spaceflight

  Universities of Leicester and Exeter collaborate on mission to send nematode worms to the International Space Station in a ‘Petri Pod’ designed and built at Space Park Leicester

• Plaque to mark Barwell Christmas Eve meteorite unveiled

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/green-plaque-to-mark-barwell-meteorite-which-landed-in-1965-unveiled

  A green plaque marking the surprise arrival of a large meteorite in the village of Barwell on Christmas Eve in 1965 has been unveiled at the junction of Chapel Street and Dawson's Lane - close to the site of the meteorite fall.

• On multi-sited research and mono-sited (nationalist) memory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/26/on-multi-sited-research-and-mono-sited-nationalist-memory/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on May 26, 2015 Addressing convict transportation – the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in archives located in different places (and countries/continents).

• Animal mummies unwrapped: hi-res 3D X-rays reveal secrets of life and death in ancient Egypt

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/animal-mummies

  Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers from the University of Leicester and University of Swansea, using high-resolution 3D scans that give unprecedented detail about the animals’ lives and deaths more than 2,000...

• Mathematics and Actuarial Science MMath

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/mathematics-and-actuarial-science-mmath/2026

  Explore actuarial practice in more detail than the BSc, and learn how to use the technical skills you learn in real world scenarios, giving you a bigger step on the professional ladder.

• Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester

  Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities