Editing Leicester (section)

===Tertiary===
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| image1      = University of Leicester towers 2010.jpg
| caption1    = [[University of Leicester]] seen from [[Victoria Park, Leicester|Victoria Park]] – Left to right: the Department of Engineering, the [[Attenborough Tower]], the Charles Wilson Building.
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| caption2    = Magazine Square, with the [[Grade I]] listed [[Magazine Gateway]] and the [[Hugh Aston]] building of [[De Montfort University]].
| image3      = National Space Center Leicester - panoramio.jpg
| caption3    = [[The National Space Centre]]
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Leicester is home to two universities, the [[University of Leicester]], which attained its [[Royal Charter]] in 1957 and was ranked 12th by the 2009 Complete University Guide,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/the-main-league-table-2009-813839.html |title=The main league table 2009 |date=23 April 2008 |work=The Independent |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515214413/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/the-main-league-table-2009-813839.html |archive-date=15 May 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[De Montfort University]], which opened in 1969 as [[Leicester Polytechnic]] and achieved university status in 1992.

It is also home to the [[National Space Centre]] off Abbey Lane, due in part to the University of Leicester being one of the few universities in the UK to specialise in space sciences.
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