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New statistics show number of children admitted into intensive care with COVID-19
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New figures released today by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester reveal the number of children in the UK who were in paediatric intensive...
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World Refugee Day: transforming lives through education
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On World Refugee Day, the University of Leicester is celebrating the transformative power of education to change lives, and the diversity that...
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Leicester championed as UK’s top recruiter to RECOVERY trial
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The Leicester COVID-19 research team, made up of researchers and clinicians from the University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hospitals, were...
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£500,000 awarded to create new Deep Space Centre
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A new centre dedicated to the exploration of deep space is to be built at the Space Park Leicester site, after the Wolfson Foundation awarded a...
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Representing BAME individuals in Covid-19 research
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Researchers must ensure people of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are proportionately represented in Covid-19 studies, according to...
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Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes
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Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.
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BAME academics are “chronically absentâ€, says Leicester Vice-Chancellor
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Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) academics are “chronically absent†in higher education, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the...
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Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered
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A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone...
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copyrightÂé¶¹APP from Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester
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“During the last week, I have been reflecting on the killing of George Floyd, an African-American, by a white police officer, and on the...
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University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'
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The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible,...