Programme registration
Friday 2 September, Hong Kong Theatre in Clement House (MANDATORY)
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Surnames beginning A-L: 10.00-11.00
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Surnames beginning M-Z: 11.00-12.00
You are required to officially Register with the School in order to enrol on the programme. Please see our graduate programme registration web page for details of what to do in advance of Registration, and what to bring with you on the day.
If under any exceptional circumstances you are unable to attend Registration at the date and time above and/or may miss the start of the pre-sessionals, please contact us via dom.mim.admissions@lse.ac.uk as soon as possible to explain your situation. Permission may be granted and alternative arrangements made on a case-by-case basis.
Pre-sessional course
Monday 5 September – Friday 23 September
Course guide
Schedule
Please note, this schedule is subject to minor changes.
Sign in on Monday 5 September
On the first day of the pre-sessional course, Monday 5 September, please sign in at 09:15 on the Lower Ground Floor of the New Academic Building (NAB). The first session of the day, a welcome to the programme, will begin promptly in the Wolfson Theatre (NAB.LG.01) at 10:00.
At the sign-in on Monday 5 September we will provide you with printed versions of the Pre-sessional schedule, in case you have not had a chance to print it or set up your UK mobile internet access.
You will note that certain classes or activities in the Pre-sessional schedule split the class into groups – usually ‘A’ and ‘B’, but occasionally A1, A2, B1 or B2. On Monday morning we will let you know which groups you are in.
Monday's group activity
As the Pre-sessional schedule indicates, on Monday you will be taking part in a group activity. For this to work, all of you who have Facebook accounts should please join this Facebook group. This is a different group to the main group for your cohort and exists solely to facilitate the group activity. For more general Facebook socialising for your cohort, you have this group which you have already been joining over recent months.
Appointments with the Careers Team
Throughout your time at LSE you will be able to make full use of LSE Careers service, and during the Pre-sessional course representatives of the Careers service will explain how you can do so. In the meantime, however, they have also offered a number of additional appointments to our students, that will take place during the lunch breaks in the pre-sessional schedule. These 20 minute, face to face session with careers consultants can be used to discuss anything careers related including:
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Application form, CV and cover letter checking (please bring a copy to your appointments with you)
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Employer and sector-specific information
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Interview advice
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Further study options
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Job hunting strategy
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Career planning and exploring ideas
To sign up for one of these appointments, please enter your name next to an available time-slot in this online document. The appointments are limited in number and available on a first-come-first-served basis. However, please do not worry if you are unable to get one of these appointments as you will be able to make your own arrangement for such an appointment, directly with Careers, throughout the term.
(Please do not remove another student’s name from the spreadsheet as it will be obvious what has happened when more than one student arrives for the same appointment! Also, please do not add any additional time slots to the spreadsheet, as a careers advisor will not be available outside of those times that we have stated.)
Reading and Mathematics
Please view the suggested pre-course reading. Please remember that the readings are not compulsory and that you are not expected to have read everything – therefore do not worry if some of the readings are hard to obtain, or too expensive, where you are.
The pre-sessional syllabus includes several optional mathematics sessions. You can assess whether these sessions will be of benefit to you by taking the MiM maths self-assessment test. If you do not answers all the questions correctly (the solutions can be found on the second page of the document), you are strongly advised to attend all of the mathematics sessions that will appear in the final published schedule.
Statistics survey
Please complete this short 5 minute survey to confirm your previous experience of statistics. The information you provide will be invaluable to the teacher of the statistics classes during pre-sessionals. We would be very grateful if you could complete the survey before Registration on Friday 2 September.
Welcome Week
Monday 19 September – Friday 23 September
The third and final week of the Pre-sessional course is also LSE Welcome Week. There is a huge range of diverse and fun events and activities taking place across LSE during Welcome Week, and we encourage you to get involved and enjoy everything the School has to offer when not attending a pre-sessional class.
The full listing of events and activities can be viewed in the LSE Welcome Guide, and the guide includes an events calendar to help you plan your week.
MG4A1 MSc Management pre-sessional: Skills Preparation for the MiM
This information is for the 2016/17 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Brittany Jones NAB 4.04, and Prof Alexander Pepper NAB 4.30
Availability
This course is compulsory on the MSc in Management and MSc in Management (CEMS MIM). This course is not available as an outside option.
Course content
The course is divided into four separate subjects: Basics of Accounting, Statistics, and Quantitative and Writing Skills for Postgraduates.
The Statistics course is for all students and covers basic probability and statistics; hypothesis testing; analysis of variance; association, correlation and regression.
The Basics of Accounting sessions will equip students with the basic skills to read a set of accounts, and to understand the issues covered in the financial press. It is intended that this will help students to adapt more quickly to the demands of case study preparation and for courses where accounting basics are helpful.
Students in the final portion of the course can opt for one of two options: Quantitative Skills, or Writing Skills for Postgraduates.
The Quantitative portion of the course is an introductory mathematics course which covers the following topics with application reference to economics and business: Functions, Linear Equations, Natural Logarithm, Comparative Statics Analysis.
The Writing Skills sessions are intended to help students who have backgrounds outside the social sciences and humanities make the transition to postgraduate work. Topics covered will include identifying and making an argument and the fundamentals of essay writing.
Teaching
30 hours of lectures in the three weeks prior to the Michaelmas Term. There will also be some workshops and tutorial sessions for the statistics portion of the course, to support students preparing practical exercises. Rounding out the schedule is a full programme of talks and activities designed to smooth your transition to postgraduate study at LSE.
Indicative reading
Statistics: Statistics: Anderson, D., Sweeney, D., Williams, T., Freeman, J., Shoesmith, E. (2009). Statistics for Business and Economics (2nd edition), Hampshire: Cengage Learning.
Huff (1991). How to Lie with Statistics. Penguin.
Accounting: Boakes, K. (2010). Reading and Understanding the Financial Times. (2nd edition), Harlow: FR Prentice Hall; and Parker, R. (2007). Understanding Company Financial Statements. (6th edition), London: Penguin.
Quantitative Skills: Hammond, P. and Sydsaeter, K. (2002). Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis. Prentice Hall; and Jacques, I. (2010). Mathematics for Economics and Business. (7th edition), Pearson.
Writing skills: Wallace, M. and Wray, A. (2011). Critical Reading and Writing for Undergraduates (2nd edition), London: Sage.
Assessment
No formal assessment. Students will sit a mock exam at the end of the statistics course based upon the material to aid learning .