October 2010
What's on this week at the University of Leicester
Events from Monday 1 November to Sunday 7 November 2010.
Parent power encourages educational achievement
Researchers in our Department of Economics have examined the major factors affecting children’s education achievements: the respective inputs of parents, teachers and children themselves.
Exploring the Margins of Citizenship: 12 November 2010
Our Department of Politics and International Relations is joining forces with the Contemporary Political Theory Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London for a one-day conference on 'The Margins of Citizenship'
School of Historical Studies presents Annual All Saints' Church Lecture, 30 October
‘Who Served the Altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English Minsters c800-c1100.’ (Also of interest: who serves the tea in the Heritage Centre, 4.00pm-5.00pm?)
Leicester graduates in the news: Elisabeth C Murphy
The Fulton Sun (that’s Fulton, Missouri) reports that Elisabeth C Murphy is the new curator/archivist for the National Churchill Museum which is based on the campus of Westminster College.
The King James Bible, 400 years old and still in print
New book from Leicester academic traces four centuries of religious debate, literary influence and spelling mistakes.
