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  University of Leeds
The University of Leeds (United Kingdom) is amongst the largest and most prestigious of British universities.
The various bodies that were to become the university were initially founded in the second half for the 19th century in response to the need to improve scientific education in the region, especially in the areas of cloth work and medicine.
Leeds is also a leading research institution, and a member of the Russell Group of Universities.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/le/Leeds_Uni.html   (346 words)

  
 Wikinfo | University of Leeds
The University of Leeds (United Kingdom) is amongst the largest of British universities.
It is quite prestigious and is located in the city of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire (in northern England).
The various bodies that were to become the university were initially founded in the second half of the 19th century in response to the need to improve scientific education in the area, especially in the areas of cloth work and medicine.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=University_of_Leeds   (422 words)

  
 University of Leeds - Engineering and Computing
Leeds is the most popular university in the UK, with an international reputation for its teaching and research.
Leeds graduates are sought by employers across the globe and our extremely wide choice of courses enables each individual to tailor his or her studies towards a chosen career path.
The University Students Union has over 130 clubs and societies, which means you are able to meet other like minded students from the UK and the rest of the world and share common interests.
www.internationaledu.net /ads/leeds_engineeringe.htm   (956 words)

  
 Leeds University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The University of Leeds is one of the most distinguished universities in the country, offering a range of courses and facilities, which can be equaled by few institutions in Britain.
Leeds students are drawn from many countries and it is proud to boast that there are very few countries in the world without at least one Leeds graduate.
The University is situated on a single campus close to the center of the city with buildings whose different styles reflect its major periods of growth during the twentieth century.
www.studyabroad.com /suny/brockport/england/universities/england_leeds.html   (323 words)

  
 University of Leeds. UK.
University of Leeds is one of the leading UK universities known for it's high standard of teaching and research.
The University of Leeds was granted it's Royal Charter as a University in 1904.
The University's libraries hold over 2.5 million books and periodicals, and include the Brotherton Library, which is one of the fourth largest libraries in the U.K. The University also has an extensive computer network of over 1,200 terminals.
educationworldwide.itgo.com /colleges/international/leeds   (447 words)

  
 Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University : IFSA-Butler Programs : England : University of Leeds
As one of the largest universities in the U.K., the University of Leeds offers its 31,500 students a huge range of courses and a reputation for top-notch teaching and research.
The Leeds Student Union is one of the biggest and best in the country, and it organizes a steady stream of theatre and concerts, from rock and jazz to opera.
Leeds has an outstanding academic reputation and is particularly well known for its science departments, including chemistry, geography, and geology.
www.ifsa-butler.org /programs/england/leeds   (259 words)

  
 University of Leeds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University campus is located one mile (1.6 km) north of the city centre of Leeds.
The University of Leeds was granted a royal charter as an independent body by King Edward VII in 1904.
Leeds was ranked 9th in the top ten UK universities by research income (2003/04) with £107.7m.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Leeds   (2006 words)

  
 LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY | HOMEPAGE
The Leeds Met basketball team won their national league game against Barrow Thorns at Headingley Campus.
Times Higher Education Supplement’s ‘university of the year’ award and the ‘outstanding contribution to the local community’ award.
Leeds Met and Northern Ballet Theatre have been awarded the ‘Arts, Business and Employees Award’.
www.lmu.ac.uk   (128 words)

  
 Astrophysics at The University of Leeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Herbig Haro 1 and 2 bipolar outflow (top), with a length of around a lightyear from tip to tip, originates on a star having an age of around a million years and a mass comparable to that of the Sun.
Leeds has major research programmes in star formation, the discs around stars, and how outflows from stars and other astronomical sources affect the surrounding environments.
Further details of the research conducted by the Leeds group can be found under "research" in the navigation bar.
ast.leeds.ac.uk   (207 words)

  
 UK Ireland Housing and Meals
The University of Leeds is one of the largest universities in the UK with a population of about 32,000 students.
Andrews is the oldest university in Scotland, enrolling approximately 7,000 students in the United College of St. Salvator and St. Leonard (for arts and sciences), and St. Mary’s College (for divinity).
The University of Stirling is a beautifully landscaped, modern campus on the grounds of a 300-acre estate.
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 The School of Healthcare
We aim to carry out the University mission by generating, disseminating and applying knowledge for the advancement of health care education, practice and policy through close working relationships with the NHS and other partner organisations.
Leeds University PhD student Jill Firth has won a Marjorie Simpson news researcher award from the Royal College of Nursing.
Katie meets the Secretary of State for International Development The photograph shows Katie Pygott in conversation with Hilary Benn MP for Leeds Central during the international health colloquium held as part of the celebrations of the 175 years of medicine and health at the University of Leeds.
healthcare.leeds.ac.uk   (948 words)

  
 University Of Leeds - Forthcoming events
Andrew Lock, Dean, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds was in India to launch the East India chapter of Indian Alumni Association of University of Leeds in Kolkata on July 5th (Monday), 2004 at The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata.
University of Leeds celebrates its centenary in 2004, 25 April is the actual anniversary of the granting of the University’s Charter by Edward VII.
John Nance said, “I am delighted that Leeds are opening a new and bigger office in India as befits their status as one of the best known universities in the UK.
www.leedsindia.com /news.htm   (1266 words)

  
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With over 20,000 students, the University of Leeds is one of the largest in the UK.The campus has steadily grown over the last 150 years and has contrasting architectural styles, green spaces and trees covering some 100 acres.
Leeds is also fortunate in having much private accommodation close to the University.
The University has two outdoor centres, one in the Lake District and one in the Yorkshire Dales, both of which may be booked by University student societies.
leva.leeds.ac.uk /www_mecheng/research.html   (1663 words)

  
 School of Computing
With over 500 students from all around the world, and record levels of research income, we are a leading player in the field of computing.
Computing in the university was established nearly 50 years ago; we enter our second half century continuing to lead in teaching and research.
The unemployment rate for graduates of the School of Computing currently runs at about 3%, while the national rate for graduates of computing is quoted at 11%.
www.comp.leeds.ac.uk   (172 words)

  
 School of Modern Languages & Cultures: Welcome
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds is the largest and most diverse in the UK, with 7 modern language departments, a Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, a Language Centre and several high-profile Research Centres.
Leeds University graduate in BA German wins top excellence award - click here for the full story.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds has recently come joint 4th for European Languages in the latest university survey conducted by the Sunday Times.
www.smlc.leeds.ac.uk /smlc/smlc_content/home/home.asp   (661 words)

  
 Leeds Met - Languages at Leeds Met - Welcome
Languages at Leeds Met will be well represented at the next University Open Day on Saturday 28 October at Headingley Campus.
Leeds Met language degrees have seen record recruitment this year at a time when numbers of students taking A level languages is falling.
Leeds Met staff have the opportunity to partake in language and culture courses in Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese.
www.leedsmet.ac.uk /lsif/sol   (122 words)

  
 Leeds Metropolitan University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leeds Metropolitan University is a university with campuses in Leeds and Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.
In 2004 the university announced that it would not charge the full rate of £3000 per year (a figure of £2000 was announced instead) for tuition fees from September 2006, unlike most other universities in England.
This was originally founded in 1824 as Leeds Mechanics' Institute and in 1868 became the Leeds Institute of Science, Art and Literature, later renamed Leeds College of Technology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leeds_Metropolitan_University   (660 words)

  
 Leeds Elgg
This pilot weblog (blog) system has been created for staff and students at the University of Leeds to use for teaching, learning and research projects.
It is based on technology developed within the higher education community http://elgg.net/ and is hosted at Leeds by ISS web services.
The Library at University of Leeds is leading a JISC virtual research environments project, the EVIE project.
elgg.leeds.ac.uk   (510 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | University of Leeds
A top civic redbrick and one of the giants of the higher education system, Leeds traces its roots as far back as 1831.
Awarded a charter by Edward VII in 1904, Leeds is now one of the largest universities in the UK, with a student population of over 32,000.
Leeds Students' Union is one of the most active in the country, with an award-winning newspaper and radio station.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/universityguide/profile/story/0,,486119,00.html   (272 words)

  
 University of Leeds - School of Music
The School of Music at the University of Leeds brings together internationally acclaimed scholars, composers and performers, to set the highest standards in music research and postgraduate teaching.
It is one of the largest academic schools of its kind in the country, and offers supervision and taught programmes across a wide range of undergraduate and research interests.
The assessors came to the overall conclusion, based on the assessment visit and an analysis of the self-assessment, together with the statistical indicators, that the quality of education in music at the University of Leeds is excellent." - Quality Assessment Report by the HEFCE.
www.leeds.ac.uk /music   (229 words)

  
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Leeds is one of Britain's largest and most popular universities with more than thirty-three thousand students and just under 7,500 staff, including four thousand academic and academic-related staff.
Trinity and All Saints College and the College of Ripon and York are affiliated to the University.
The University is also associated with Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital, which together make up the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
wwwnotes2.leeds.ac.uk /jobs/unijob.nsf/Jobs   (117 words)

  
 Faculty of Biological Sciences | Research Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
Our aim is to undertake high quality research on societal issues that matter (see the University Strategy Map at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/strategy), and within the Institute we aim to foster an environment where research can flourish because it is the focus of our activities and we interact in an intellectually stimulating and supportive environment.
For example, the University Interdisciplinary Institute, the Earth and Biosphere Institute (http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/ebi/) is a grouping of scientists with interests in the effects of biotic and environmental changes on a spectrum of time and space scales, from short term to geological, and from nano-scale to global.
We are always interested in hearing from potential postgraduate students (see also http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/gradschool/index.htm), research fellows and academics who may be interested in relocating to Leeds.
www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk /institutes/iicb.htm   (403 words)

  
 Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology
The mass spectrometry facility is situated in Laboratory 9.107 of the Astbury Building at the University of Leeds.
The Q-Tof has been purchased by a Joint Research Equipment Initiative grant from the BBSRC/HEFCE together with other financial contributions from the University of Leeds and Micromass UK Ltd. The Q-Tof is usually operated with nanospray ionisation, a low flow adaptation of electrospray that offers superior sensitivity whilst consuming smaller sample volumes.
The LCT Premier was purchased in 2005 with a Wellcome Trust grant and further financial support from the University of Leeds.
www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk /Facil/mass.htm   (1879 words)

  
 Leeds University of - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leeds University of - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Leeds, University of, institution of higher education in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Its precursors were the Leeds School of Medicine, founded...
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 University of Leeds - EGIL
Description: The Icelandic Collection at the University of Leeds has at its heart chiefly Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature but extends to include both the history and culture of Iceland.
These derive from the original Melsteð Collection, but are predominantly modern in character, although a number of works published in the 18th century form part of the Scandinavian collection.
For general information about Leeds University Library including admission see the Library home page.
www.egil.nottingham.ac.uk /collections/leeds.html   (392 words)

  
 University Of Leeds - Why Leeds
Leeds rated 2nd by choice for Recruitment in a recent Survey of Employers by MPW, UK in 1999.
Leeds located in the heart of West Yorkshire is a prosperous commercial, industrial and manufacturing city.
University provides for food (British style) for halls of residence, Postgraduate accomodation is self catered (i.e.
www.leedsindia.com /whyleeds.htm   (845 words)

  
 Honorary Degree -- Leeds University -- 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She will be honoured at Leeds as an honorary Doctor of Letters for her lifelong dedication to the arts.
He was the first of his family to attend university, his interest in science having been awakened by the gift of a telescope at the age of eight.
While still an undergraduate at the University of Leeds (Trinity and All Saints College), Fiona May was already excelling in athletics, winning bronze in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in her first year and competing in the Olympics in her final year.
www.djdchronology.com /leedsuniversity2002.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Issue 519, 25 September 2006 | Reporter | University of Leeds
Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Services will be led by Leeds' - and the UK's - first Director of Well-being, Safety and Health, Gary Tideswell, who joined the University this month.
A piece of equipment normally found in hospitals is being used by Leeds researchers to help oil companies get the best results from their reservoirs.
Risk-takers are often considered more optimistic and impulsive people but Leeds researchers are using an online survey to find out whether risk-taking is a general personality trait.
reporter.leeds.ac.uk   (299 words)

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