Awards 2012

November 2012: LSE100 prizewinners 2012

The LSE100 Subboard of examiners awarded 14 prizes for students’ outstanding academic achievement on LSE100 in 2011-12. Following a generous gift to LSE100 from Sir Robert Worcester, Emeritus Governor of the School and founding member of the LSE100 Steering Committee, two Sir Robert Worcester prizes for exceptional academic performance on LSE100 have been established.

Sir Robert Worcester Prizes for exceptional academic performance 2011-12

Jessica Hui – for best overall mark on LSE100

Kenneth Lim – for highest examination mark on LSE100

LSE100 Prizes for outstanding achievement on the course 2011-12

These prizes were presented at the LSE100 Public Lecture and Prizegiving, which was held on Monday 19 November 2012.

September 2012: LSE100 Director publishes on LSE100 and the education of economists

An article by Jonathan Leape, Director of LSE100 (‘Good economists need more than economics – The multidisciplinary LSE100 course’ ) was published this month in the book, What’s the use of economics: Teaching the dismal science after the crisis, following a Bank of England – Government Economic Service workshop held earlier in the year. Although, given the subject of the book, the paper focuses particularly on the education of economists, it sets out the pedagogic motivation and approach of LSE100 and many of the arguments relating to economists are valid more broadly.

May 2012 : LSE100 Director speaks at University of Utrecht

The Director of LSE100, Dr Jonathan Leape, gave a keynote address on LSE100 at the University College, University of Utrecht, Learning and Teaching Event, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in which he set out the LSE100 strategy for developing intellectual breadth and strengthening critical skills. On the second day, he co-led a workshop on teaching argumentation and writing with Dr Suzanne Lane, Director of the ‘Writing across the curriculum’ programme at MIT.

April 2012: LSE100 Director speaks to the Scottish Economic Society

The Director of LSE100, Dr Jonathan Leape, gave a plenary talk at the annual meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, on why economists need more than economics and all social scientists need to understand the different ways of thinking like a social scientist, and presented the strategy of LSE100.

April 2012: LSE100 teacher presents research to Italian Prime Minister

LSE100 teacher, Dr Simona Milio, who also works for LSE Enterprise’s Social and Cohesion Policy unit, presented the findings of a study on Brain Drain, Brain Circulation and Brain Exchange to Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti in Rome on 16 April 2012.

Read the LSE Enterprise News

February 2012: "LSE100: The Story of a Course"

LSE100 is now featured as one the "Stories from LSE" series, in a film made possible by HEIF4 funding. In this film the former Director of LSE100, Dr Jonathan Leape, sets out the thinking behind the course, leading academics at LSE, all of whom teach on the course, comment on its intellectual value and students discuss the value of the course, both to their own understanding of the social sciences and also to employers looking for students who can work well in groups, write cogent arguments and see an issue from a range of perspectives.

Read more and watch the video