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27 October 2011 |
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TRIUM ranked second in the world by the Financial Times
The TRIUM Global Executive MBA Programme, in which LSE is a partner, has been
ranked second in the world by the Financial Times annual ranking of
Executive MBA programmes.
Each year, the Financial Times survey evaluates Executive MBA
programmes offered by business schools from all over the world. The study
assesses the career progress of alumni three years after programme completion
(the Class of 2008), the academic excellence of the faculty, as well as the
programme's international scope. One hundred programmes are ranked in this
year's table.
TRIUM, an alliance between LSE, New York University Stern School of
Business and HEC School of Management, Paris, has risen from third place in
last year's rankings to second in the world.
For the fourth year running TRIUM is ranked first in the world for 'Aims
Achieved', a criteria that measures the extent to which alumni fulfilled
their most important goals or reasons for pursuing an EMBA; and first in
'Work Experience', which measures the previous experience of EMBA
participants by examining seniority of positions held, number of years in
each position, size of company, and any international work experience prior
to starting the EMBA. TRIUM ranks second in 'Salaries Today', another
measure of career progress, and second for 'International Course
Experience'.
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LSE academic appointed Inner Temple Academic Fellow Dr Andrew
Scott (pictured), senior lecturer in law at LSE, is one of four legal
academics to have been appointed Academic Fellows of the Honourable Society
of the Inner Temple.
The Academic Fellows Scheme aims to recognise the outstanding
contribution of legal teaching and research of early to mid-career academics
to the Bar of England and Wales. It also aims to support their research and
to build stronger ties between barristers and legal academics.
Dr Scott is joined by Dr Ronan McCrea (University College London), Joanna
Miles (University of Cambridge), and Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner
(University of Hull), who will each take up this prestigious three year role
in December 2011.
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LSE sculpture named one of the top ten public contemporary artworks in
London
ArtLyst, one of the most comprehensive resource websites for
contemporary art in London, has named Richard Wilson's sculpture at LSE
as one of the top ten public contemporary art works in London.
The sculpture, named 'Square the Block', was installed
on the corner of LSE's New Academic Building
in 2009.
Where it looks as if the corner of the building has been sliced away to
facilitate the movement of passers by, Richard Wilson added a new corner
section made from vertical slices of the rest of the building, the lower
section of which appears compressed and twisted as if shunted upwards to
free up the pavement.
More information on the sculpture can be
found here. 'Square the Block' isn’t the only artwork at LSE - have
a look at the other artworks around the campus
here.
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Academics abroad
Professor Mary Kaldor (pictured), director of the Civil Society and Human
Security Research Unit at LSE, will join a distinguished programme of
speakers at the
Falling Walls conference in Berlin on Wednesday 9 November.
Professor Kaldor's lecture, entitled 'Breaking the Wall of War: how human
security makes people feel safe in a global era', will highlight the growing
security deficit due to the use of anachronistic classic military tactics,
and proposes an innovative human security approach, based on the protection
of individuals against contemporary global challenges.
On Wednesday 19 October, Seán Boyle of LSE Health and Social Care, gave a
lecture entitled 'The Impact of English Health Reform on the Private
Sector', at the CEVRO Institut in Prague, Czech Republic.
The lecture looked at developments in the use of the private sector in the
English NHS since 1997, and discussed the possible impact of the new health
legislation on private sector involvement in the delivery of health care.
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 Notices
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New Bankside short stay room - available now
LSE Hall of Residence, Bankside House, has a new en-suite double guest room
available to let for bed and breakfast stays of up to seven days, opening on
Tuesday 1 November. This adds to the range of staff accommodation
at Bankside House, making it an ideal base for alumni, conference delegates,
speakers, new staff and other visitors to the School.
Come along to the open morning on Thursday 10 November from 9am-12.30pm
and take a look for yourself. Complimentary croissants and coffee will be
provided.
For more information, contact Samantha Da-Costa on ext 7023, or visit
Accommodation for staff and visitors.
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Balancing Work and Being Dad - a workshop for expectant and new
fathers, who are either employees or partners of employees LSE has
recently been certified as a
'Top 30 Employer for Working Families' and as a 'Finalist for the Best for
Fathers Award 2011'.
As part of the ongoing commitment to help staff balance their family life
with work, an event for fathers and fathers-to-be has been organised for
Tuesday 15 November from 12.30-2pm.
The event will be introduced by pro-director Professor Stuart Corbridge
and delivered by Matt Buttery, a parenting expert, trainer and coach from
Working Families.
To book a place for yourself or for more information, visit the
online training booking system. If you wish to book a place for your
partner, email Inga Achterkamp at
i.achterkamp@lse.ac.uk. If you have any questions, email Inga or Gail
Keeley at g.keeley@lse.ac.uk.
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Disabled Staff Network
Interested in disability issues? Want to make sure disability issues are
heard in the School? Come to the next meeting of the Disabled Staff
Network on Thursday 3 November at 12.30pm in room U103, Tower One.
The Disabled Staff Network is an independent group of staff who aim to
ensure that disabled staff have a voice in the School. If you have a
disability, whether visible or hidden, whether or not you have disclosed
it to the School, or you have carer responsibilities for a disabled
person, you will find the group of interest.
For more information, email
disabled.network.staff@lse.ac.uk
or drop in next Thursday.
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Here
to help - LSE's Staff Counselling Service
The LSE Staff Counselling Service aims to support all staff in their work,
whether full or part time.
A number of staff have already accessed and benefitted from the opportunity
to look at personal or work difficulties in a confidential space. The
service can offer quick access and a range of appointment times.
If you would like discuss any issue, complete an online registration form on
the
website, email
staff.counselling@lse.ac.uk, or call 020 7955 6953.
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Director's Christmas Party for Children Attention all
parents - the invitations for the Director's Christmas Party for Children of
Staff will be sent out early next week and this year the party will be held
on Saturday 3 December from 2-5pm.
Look out for the email and RSVP early to avoid disappointment, as the
places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
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Christmas Party - save the date This year the Director and
Secretary's Reception for Administrative, Departmental, Library and Research
Staff (the Christmas Party) is being held on Friday 9 December from
6-11pm in the SCR and SDR, fifth floor of the Old Building.
Invitations will be sent out soon.
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Room required Senior visiting research fellow, Dr Joanna
Michlic, is seeking a large room in a sunny, clean house which would be
available for four months, from 3 January until 30 April 2012.
Ideally the house should have modern amenities such as Wi-Fi, and a north
London location would be preferred. If you have a room available, email
Joanna at j.michlic@lse.ac.uk or
jmichlic@comcast.net.
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Let's Get Quizzical
Let’s Get Quizzical is the new charity pub quiz being held every Monday
night at LSE's George IV pub.
The quiz will be an international affair covering a range of subjects,
in a fun atmosphere where you can enjoy a drink with your friends and
also have the opportunity to win plenty of prizes. Participants compete
in teams with a minimum donation of £1 per person. All money raised will
be donated to a local homeless project in London.
The first quiz will take place on Monday 31 October at 8.30pm. If you
would like to reserve a table for your team, email
m.m.moore@lse.ac.uk.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features Dr Max Price, vice-chancellor of the
University of Cape Town, who delivered the LSE-UCT joint
lecture, entitled
Is South African Society More Equal Today Than When Apartheid Ended in
1994?, on Monday 24 October in the Old Theatre, Old Building.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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UK National Security Council lacks capacities to deliver coherent
defence strategy The UK can no longer make effective national defence
strategy as it once did, and the National Security Council currently lacks
the method and institutional frame to address future security threats, warns
a paper published by LSE Professor Gwyn Prins (pictured).
The British Way of Strategy-Making: vital lessons for our times by
Professor Prins, a research professor at LSE and a visiting professor at the
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Buckingham, is
published by the Royal United Services Institute in partnership with HRI at
the University of Buckingham.
Professor Prins argues that muddling of military and civilian roles in
the higher management of defence has increasingly blurred a correct and
precise understanding of the different but complementary roles of grand
strategy, operational strategy and government policy. The progressive loss
of clarity during the post-war years has led to the present day malaise.
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LSE to monitor inequality and poverty under the coalition LSE
researchers have launched a major new programme of work to report on the
impact of the recession, spending changes and the government's social policy
reforms on inequality and poverty in the UK.
The Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trust for London
have combined to fund the work, which will be carried out by a team of
researchers at the LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).
The work will take place over the period leading up to the next scheduled
general election in May 2015 and will look back to the last three years of
the Labour government as well as forward.
Among other things, it will provide a comprehensive overview of social
policy changes and public spending patterns, their differing impacts on
diverse groups, and how the increase in localism has affected regional
inequalities and the north/south divide. It will also document how the
overall distributions of income and wealth have been affected by the
recession, spending cuts and changing policy.
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 Events
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Upcoming events include....
Building an International Rule of Law
On: Thursday 27 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Judge Patrick Robinson, president of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The Role of a Foreign Bank in China
On: Monday 31 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Sir Thomas Harris, vice chairman of Standard Chartered
Capital Markets Ltd.
Shadow World: inside the global arms trade
On: Tuesday 1 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Andrew Feinstein (pictured), author and founding co-director
of Corruption Watch.
The Rare Find
On: Wednesday 2 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: George Anders, a founding member of Bloomberg View's board
of editors, writing about technology, innovation and economics.
The Darwin Economy: liberty, competition, and the common good
On: Thursday 10 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Robert H Frank (pictured), economics professor at
Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, regular columnist for the
New York Times, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.
This event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. One ticket per
person can be requested on Tuesday 1 November.
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LSE 'Pink' Chill - this Friday
Friday 28 October
The next LSE Chill session takes place this Friday in the 4th Floor Café
Bar, Old Building from 5.30pm.
The event will be a special one as we’ll be supporting the Breast Cancer
Campaign ‘Wear it Pink’ day. There will be games and fun in the evening
and please something wear pink if you can.
The line up is as follows:
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6-6.30pm David Lewis
Described by Sing Out as 'a writer and singer worth getting to
know', David Lewis has recorded and released three CDs of acoustic
folk-rock since the early 1990s.
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6.45-7.15pm Daniel Print
Celebrating ten years as a solo singer-songwriter, Daniel will be
playing a selection of his own songs, some from his days on the London
gig circuit and some new songs.
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7.30-8pm Veronique Mizgailo
Veronique, who works in the Directorate, has a classical singing
background, having sung with notable choirs such as the London
Philharmonic Choir. She will be accompanied by Andy Thornes, a
professional musician and songwriter, to perform a selection of standard
and classic pop ballads.
LSE Arts is still looking for acts to perform across the year. If you
are interested in performing, email
arts@lse.ac.uk. For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/arts.
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Asia House Youth Symposium - ‘Double Dividend or Double Jeopardy’
On: Tuesday 1 November at the Old Library, Guildhall, London
The LSE Asia Research Centre is supporting a symposium hosted by Asia
House. This event will focus on the key challenges facing global youth in
the 21st century, bringing together leaders from the corporate sector,
academia, governments and NGOs. They will discuss and debate the uniquely
challenging issue of disenfranchised youth in the countries of Asia and the
impacts of frequent civil unrest on economy, education, environment and
women in these regions.
Speakers will include:
- Malcolm Gillies, vice chancellor, London Metropolitan
University
- Mishal Husain, BBC News
- Ruth Kattumuri, co-director, LSE Asia Research Centre
- Gerard Lyons, global head of research, Standard Chartered
- Tomas Romero, partner, Wipro
- David Skelton, deputy director, Policy Exchange.
For more information and to register, visit
asiahouseconference.com.
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Confidence from Uncertainty: interpreting climate predictions
Friday 4 November
As part of the
ESRC
Festival of Social Science, the Centre for the Analysis of Time
Series and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment will be presenting an exhibit and lecture at LSE.
The hands-on exhibit is designed to communicate some aspects of the
character of uncertainty in the science of climate change. The exhibit is
brought to life via a number of interactive computer-based activities.
The exhibit will run from 11am-6.30pm in the lower ground floor foyer of
the New Academic Building. It will be followed by a lecture by Dr David
Stainforth from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre.
The exhibit and lecture, which have been supported by the LSE Annual
Fund, are free and open to all but please email
cats@lse.ac.uk if you plan to attend.
For more information, visit
Confidence from Uncertainty.
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Bombing Savages in Law, in Fact, in Fiction
On: Thursday 10 November from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Sven Lindqvist,
author of over 30 widely translated books including A History of
Bombing.
This lecture marks the centenary of aerial bombardment and examines the
relationship between racism, imperialism and aerial warfare.
In November 1911, an Italian pilot dropped the first bombs from an
aeroplane onto an oasis outside Tripoli. More than just a military
revolution, this development changed both war and peace.The lecture is
linked to the conference ‘Shock and Awe: 100 years of bombing from above’
(10-12 November), a joint initiative of LSE Sociology and the Sociology
Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
This event is free and open to all. Entry is on a first come, first
served basis. For more information,
click here. For more information on the conference, including a full
programme and booking information, visit
www.shockandawe.org.uk/.
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Fairer Care Funding - LSE Health and Social Care Annual Lecture 2011
On:
Tuesday 22 November at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Andrew Dilnot (pictured), principal of St Hugh’s College,
Oxford, pro vice chancellor of The University of Oxford, and former chairman
of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support.
Discussants: Jenny Owen, director of Adult Social Care for
Essex County Council and co-chair of the Association of Directors of Social
Services Committee on Older People, and Nicholas Timmins, public
policy editor at the Financial Times.
Achieving a sustainable and fair system for funding the support required
by people with social care needs represents a growing challenge to
governments across the world. In this lecture, Andrew Dilnot will introduce
the rationale for the recommendations made by the independent Commission on
the Funding of Care and Support set up by the coalition government and which
reported in July 2011. How do the Commission's proposals allocate
responsibility between individual and the state, and why?
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. This event is free
and open to all but pre-registration is required. To register, email
lsehsc@lse.ac.uk.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Is Happiness the Right Measure of Social Progress?
Speakers: Professor Lord Richard Layard and Professor Lord
Robert Skidelsky
Recorded: Tuesday 18 October, approx 72 minutes
Click here to listen
Are Adverbial Rules Enough?
Speaker: Oliver Letwin MP
Recorded: Wednesday 19 October 2011, approx 39 mins
Click here to listen
Combating Carbon in an Economic Crisis
Speakers: Tom Burke and Avinash Persaud
Recorded: Thursday 20 October 2011, approx 94 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Beni Ahjem
I'm the customer services manager
in the Estates Division. I oversee
the work of the help desk and deal
with managing the information flow
and customer relations including
enquiries, follow-ups, feedback and
complaints (hopefully not many).
Every day I hope to be able to make
a small contribution to people’s
facilities issues being resolved or
made a little bit easier.
What has been the
funniest/strangest request you have
received via one of the LSE
maintenance request forms?
When we receive requests we vet
them as sometimes they are beyond what our standard service
covers, a
little like the 999 service. We
receive requests for almost anything
and we need to manage our
customers expectations carefully. Although I
cannot think of a particularly funny
or strange one, examples of requests
that have raised questions are: to
kill flies in a room, to supply
up-lighters that were so expensive
they must have been made of gold, or
to advise on where the smell last
week came from!
With which famous person would
you like to have dinner, and why?
Any genius who was so far ahead
of their time that they ended up
being a victim of the human
ignorance or religious doctrine. I
would like to ask them how they saw
the world, dealt with being so
different, pursued their interests
regardless, and what they would make
of the world as it is now.
I recently visited
Saint-Remy-de-Provence and the
asylum where Van Gogh voluntarily
checked in and spent a year of his
life. There he had one of his most
productive periods. He sold only one
painting while he was alive and
became recognised years after his
death. In the exhibition, there was
a quote from Van Gogh saying
(quoting from memory): ‘Even if I am
worth something in the future, it
means I am worth something now, as
wheat is wheat even if people think
it is grass at the beginning’. I
wished I could meet him and talk to
him and was relieved to know that he
knew the value of his talent when
the world around him was not ready
for it.
On a lighter note, I would not
turn down an invitation for a dinner
party with Bill Clinton, Stephen
Fry, Elvis Presley and Elton John
among the guests. I cannot imagine
there would be a dull moment during that
evening.
As a child, what did you want
to be when you grew up?
Well to start with I wanted to be
an athlete and even went to a sports
school for three years, but then I
had to make a choice between
concentrating on my sports career or
choosing to go to university and I
chose the latter. Once this decision
was made, I decided that I
wanted to pursue an academic career
in tourism development or own a
travel agency. Who knows, those
things might have come true, but
once I relocated to England, the
employment opportunities chose me
rather than the other way round. I
have no regrets, I have been lucky
with my jobs so far.
Have you ever broken a bone?
I broke my arm twice as a child.
Once falling over while running away
from a boy at school and once I
fractured my wrist waking up in bed
(not sure how this happened).
What is your favourite TV
programme?
Any good comedy will do. QI
is definitely something I will
switch to when there is nothing else
on TV. Also I like to watch
programmes by David Attenborough,
Professor Winston and Professor
Brian Cox, and I really enjoyed the
recent BBC justice series by
Professor Michael Sandel.
Which are your two favourite
shops in London?
National Geographic on Regent
Street is one shop which I never
tire of visiting. I also like Liberty;
I can never afford to buy much if
there's not a sale but I love to
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Excel 2010: formulas and common functions
- One-to-one IT training
- PowerPoint 2010: polished presentations in ten steps
- Moodle basics training
- Keeping Up To Date: tools and tips for your research
- Lunch and Learn: health and safety
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Jobs at LSE Below are some of the vacancies currently being
advertised to internal candidates only, as well as those being advertised
externally.
- Departmental manager (planning and resources), Economics
- Director of information management and technology, IT
Services
- Educational developer, Teaching and Learning Centre
- Executive programme manager (MSc diplomacy and international
strategy), LSE IDEAS
- LSE100 class teacher, LSE100 The LSE Course
- LSE100 teaching fellow, LSE100 The LSE Course
- Lecturer in economics, Economics
- Lecturer in management science, Operational Research Group
- Lectureship in finance, Finance
- Lectureship in philosophy, Philosophy
- MI graduate teaching administrator, Methodology Institute
- Policy analyst - climate change, Grantham Research Institute
- Principal research fellow - CEP wellbeing programme, Centre
for Economic Performance
- Research assistant - econometrics, Grantham Research
Institute
- Research fellow, LSE Cities
- Student recruitment and study abroad coordinator, Student
Recruitment
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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