莱切斯特大学50周年校庆
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The University of Leicester has launched its 50th Anniversary programme highlighting events that are taking place during the autumn term.

A host of activities has been planned for the year to celebrate the University College of Leicester being granted its Royal Charter on May 1st 1957 and so becoming the University of Leicester.

The transformation of the University College into the University of Leicester owed much to the tireless work of those associated with the University as well as to people in the city and county.

The new University celebrated its coming of age with a series of public events – the University Sermon was preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury; the City held a civic lunch in honour of the University and the Lord Mayor presented the University with various items including a silver mace and robes for the Chancellor.

A year later, HM The Queen visited the University to open the Percy Gee Building which houses the Students’ Union.

Leicester was amongst the smallest of the English universities in 1957 with 120 staff and some 800 students. Students enrolling that year could opt to receive London degrees or Leicester degrees.

The University, now with nearly 20,000 students and more than 3,000 staff, has flourished to become one of the UK’s leading universities with a world-class reputation for its teaching and research – it is one of just 21 British universities to feature in the a league table of the world’s top 200 universities.

To mark its 50th anniversary, a year of public events is planned, including Celebrate Leicester Day - a University-wide open day on Saturday 26th April 2008 to showcase the University's departments. Everybody is welcome to come along and enjoy the displays, talks and demonstrations.

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