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• The Duke of York learns about life at LSE
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, attended a lecture on population
growth, spoke to student societies, caught up on the latest research,
and enjoyed a lunch overlooking the rooftops of London during a visit to
LSE on Monday (25 October).
The Duke, who is the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade
and Investment, visited LSE to gain an insight into the everyday workings of
the School. He was greeted by LSE Director Howard Davies and Peter
Sutherland, chairman of the LSE Court of Governors, who accompanied the Duke
on a tour of the campus.
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• Baroness Patricia Scotland to speak at LSE’s Black Achievement
Conference
In celebration of the UK’s Black History Month, LSE is hosting its third
annual ‘Black to the Future’ conference for African-Caribbean heritage
students and their families.
The one-day conference, on Saturday 30 October, aims to encourage young
African-Caribbean students to continue to aim high, along with celebrating
past achievements and involving parents in the decision making process.
The conference will feature a keynote speech by Patricia Janet Scotland,
Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC, a British barrister who has served
in many ministerial positions within the UK government, notably the Attorney General for England and Wales.
Niaomi Collett, widening participation officer at LSE, said: ‘LSE’s
annual Black to the Future conferences aim to help students and their
families plan for the future by highlighting some of the positive
achievements in the black community and providing a taste of higher
education and beyond.’
The event will be hosted by presenter and DJ Kat B and is free and open
to African-Caribbean students from London state secondary schools and their
families. Booking is essential. Visit
lse.ac.uk/blacktothefuture for more information.
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• Secretary of state for energy and climate change to speak at LSE
A new lecture with Chris Huhne MP,
secretary of state for energy and climate change, has just been
announced.
During the lecture, which will take place at LSE on
Tuesday 2 November, Chris Huhne will set out the economic need for
low-carbon growth as an essential path out of recession.
He will argue that the urgent need to renew and
decarbonise our energy supply, and to upgrade our ageing and inefficient
buildings, will not just provide an economic boost but also help to create a
more balanced, resilient and sustainable British economy.
The event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. LSE
students and staff are able to collect one ticket from the New Academic
Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building, from 10am on
Friday 29 October. For more information, visit the
Event page.
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• Introducing LSE Chill
Are you a budding musician? Are you in a group looking for somewhere to
perform? Do you want the opportunity to perform at LSE?
LSE Arts is pleased to provide an opportunity for students and staff to
do just that. LSE Chill is a new open mic session which will start in the
Lent term 2011, on the last Friday of every month from 5.30pm in the 4th
Floor Café bar.
We’re looking for acts to perform for each session. If you are interested in performing, please email
arts@lse.ac.uk with your name and details of your act.
Not a performer? That doesn’t matter. If you enjoy listening to music and
want somewhere to go after work to relax or catch up with friends, then
think about coming to the LSE Chill sessions.
More details will follow soon.
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• Museums over-reacting by hiding mummies and other ancient
human remains, says new book
British museums are increasingly over-sensitive about the display of
human remains and are hiding them away following demands for greater
'respect' from minority groups such as Pagans, as well as their own
staff, a new book reveals.
The new policies to hide ancient human remains away have been implemented
despite their popularity with audiences. A recent opinion survey for English
Heritage shows that nine-tenths of the public are comfortable with displays
of human remains which are among the most popular attractions in museums.
Dr Tiffany Jenkins of LSE reveals the radical change in museums' policy
on ancient human remains, such as Egyptian mummies, skeletons and bog
bodies, in her book Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections,
published on Monday.
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• One in eight children still have upsetting experiences online,
new Europe-wide study shows
More than one in eight children have been bothered or upset by online
content finds a new report based on interviews with 23,000 young people
across Europe. However researchers stressed that the majority of
children had no upsetting experiences on the internet and indeed were
often comfortable doing things that some adults consider risky.
While 12 per cent of children said they had been bothered or upset by
experiences online - including encountering pornography, sexual or bullying
messages and potentially harmful user-generated-content - another finding
was that their parents were often not aware of the risks to which their
children had been exposed. For example, where a child had been bullied
online, more than half of parents did not realise this had happened.
The EU Kids Online project based at LSE also found that children are
going online at ever-younger ages - an average of seven in Sweden and eight
in several other Northern European countries, including the UK.
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• LSE wins the Global Peace and Unity Education Award 2010
LSE has won the Global Peace and Unity University Award for 2010. The
award 'recognises the university's efforts in setting standards of
all-round excellence and nurturing a new generation of upstanding high
achievers'.
It was awarded on Sunday 24 October at the Global Peace and Unity Event
in London, as an education award alongside a state primary and a
secondary school.
The School was nominated for the award by
the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, following a
submission by the LSESU Islamic Society.
Nabeel Moosa, president of the LSESU Islamic Society, said: 'We thought
LSE was the ideal candidate for the GPU Education Award for a number of
reasons. These include the School's receptiveness to our ideas and
suggestions, as well as engaging and participating with us throughout the
year, especially during our Discover Islam Week. Most importantly, however,
is that the School has maintained a culture of open dialogue and
understanding, which is imperative for a healthy school-student
partnership.'
For more information about the
event, visit the Global Peace
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• Student services question time
What do you think of the services LSE provides to students? Have you
experienced great customer service? Do facilities need an
upgrade? Would you like the chance to meet some of LSE's senior managers and
discuss your experiences?
On Monday 8 November, Adrian Hall (secretary of the School and director
of administration), Andy Farrell (director
of finance and facilities), Jean Sykes (chief
information officer),
and Simeon Underwood (academic registrar)
will be holding an open feedback session for students across the LSE
community.
Similar sessions last year discussed student representation within
departments, artwork in the New Academic Building, PhD study space, and the
prospects for a music practice room to be included in the New Students'
Centre.
Come along to the 4th Floor Restaurant, Old Building, at 4pm on Monday 8
November to get your views heard. Space is limited, and admission will be on
a first come, first served basis. If you are unable to attend in person but
would like to submit something for discussion, please email James Strong at
secdiv.admin@lse.ac.uk.
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• Get
your nominations in….
LSE’s Nominations Committee, which is chaired by Peter Sutherland, would
like to invite nominations for the following:
Independent members of the Court of Governors
We are looking for individuals who can play a leading role in the School,
not only through the Court’s externally focused representations and
strategic discussions, but also potentially as a member of the Council (the
governing body) and its sub-committees.
The deadline for nominations is Wednesday 17 November. For more
information, visit
Governor Search.
Honorary Fellowship
The Court of Governors may elect as an Honorary Fellow of LSE any member of
the School whose achievements are of conspicuous merit, or any person,
including members of the School, who has rendered outstanding service to
LSE.
The deadline for nominations is Wednesday 17 November. For more
information, visit
Honorary Fellows Nominations.
Honorary Doctorate
The LSE Council may award an Honorary Doctorate to ‘persons who have made an
outstanding contribution to the increased understanding, or appreciation of
“the causes of things” and their practical application in the social
sciences or related fields.’
The deadline for nominations is Friday 11 February 2011. For more
information, visit
Honorary Degree Nominations.
All completed nomination forms should be sent to Joan Poole, Planning and
Corporate Policy Division, at
j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk.
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• Wear it Pink
LSESU RAG is helping to support the Breast Cancer Campaign on Friday 29
October by wearing it pink.
Join them across campus and make a voluntary donation to the campaign at
the stall on Houghton Street. Alternatively they will be selling pink
ribbon, home-made cakes, and have even organised a dance-troupe to show
off their skills on Houghton Street.
Click here for more
info on the campaign or email su.rag@lse.ac.uk
to find out more.
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• Student parenting and carer network meeting
Wednesday 3 November, 1-3pm, venue to be confirmed
Do you have child care or other care responsibilities? Would you like to
meet other students in this situation?
Come and share experiences, challenges, joys and ideas with other
students at this network meeting. Plus meet the student advisers, who are
keen to hear your thoughts and see what support might help you manage your
studies most effectively.
A sandwich lunch will be provided. To book a place, email
tlc.events@lse.ac.uk or
j.r.hopkin@lse.ac.uk.
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• Interested in consultancy work?
LSE Enterprise is holding an introductory workshop on Friday 12
November, for researchers interested in undertaking paid consultancy
work.
The session will be held from 2.30-3.30pm in Box, fifth floor of Tower
Three.
Please email enterprise@lse.ac.uk
to book your place and let us know your areas of interest and experience.
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• My Careers Service - Jobs of the Week
- Graduate development program and industrial placements, Bentley
Motors - Gain experience with a major brand, with placements in
engineering, purchasing, production management, logistics, finance,
information systems, quality, or sales and marketing.
- Graduate training scheme, Diageo - Apply for this graduate
training scheme to work with brands such as Smirnoff, Guinness and
Baileys in marketing, sales and supply chain roles.
- Fundraising administrator internship, WaterAid - Volunteer
with WaterAid’s regional development team in an exciting international
development opportunity and NGO.
- Senior programme officer, Open Society Institute - Interested
in human rights, public health or social policy? Apply by 10 December
for this experienced-hire position.
For full details of these posts and over 800 more, visit 'My Careers
Service' at www.lse.ac.uk/careers
and click ‘Search for Opportunities’.
Come and visit the Careers Service in our new location on floor three,
Tower Three.
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• Student training at LSE
Student courses scheduled for next week include:
- Legal research: finding UK legislation
- Get started with EndNote
- Finding journal articles
- Good writing psychology
- Going beyond Google
- Excel 2010: formulas and common functions
- Excel 2010: charts
- Excel 2010: pivot tables
- Word 2010: essential tips and techniques
- Outlook 2010: outlook for business
- Introduction to database structure and design
For a full schedule and further details, including booking information,
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• New exhibition....
Cambodia: reflections of the Khmer Rouge
Opens: Monday 1 November in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building
Cambodia: reflections of the Khmer Rouge portrays life under the
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and brings the story up to date with
information about the ongoing trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders.
The exhibition features material from the archives at the Documentation
Centre of Cambodia, much of which has not been seen outside Tuol Sleng,
the former detention centre in Phnom Penh.
The exhibition will run until 10 December. Visitors are welcome
Monday-Friday between 10am-8pm. The exhibition is free and open to all. A
public event series will coincide with the exhibition, starting on Monday 8
November with a screening of 'Deacon of Death', a documentary telling the
story of one woman's confrontation of the man she holds responsible for the
death of her family. For more information about this exhibition and events
series, visit
Human Rights.
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• Other events include....
Phase Three of the Global Crisis
On: Monday 1 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Paul Mason, economics editor of BBC Newsnight
Them and Us: why we need a fair society
On: Tuesday 2 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Will Hutton (pictured), executive vice-chair of The Work
Foundation and senior visiting fellow at LSE Global Governance
The Future of UK Banking
On: Wednesday 3 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Antonio Horta-Osrio, chief executive of Santander UK
Greece is Changing
On: Monday 8 November at 6.30pm. The venue will be confirmed to
ticketholders.
Speaker: George Papaconstantinou, Greek finance minister
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket
per person can be requested from 10am on Monday 1 November.
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• LSE Global Governance lunchtime
seminars
These seminars are a chance for staff and students to present their
research, explore themes arising from work undertaken at the centre, and
invite the audience to discuss the work further.
Lunchtime seminars are held every Tuesday during Michaelmas and Lent
terms, from 1-2pm in room M101 unless otherwise stated.
The next seminar will take place on Tuesday 2 November, with Dr Robert
Falkner discussing the topic From Copenhagen to Cancun: where next for
international climate policy?
For the complete schedule of seminars, visit
Lunchtime Seminars.
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• Is it legitimate to have publicly funded faith schools?
On: Thursday 4 November at 6.30pm in room S75, St Clement's
Building
Speaker:
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular
Society
The LSESU Atheist and Humanist Society present this lecture with Keith
Porteous Wood, who will be addressing the topic 'Is it legitimate to have
publicly funded faith schools?'
There will be a Q&A session after the lecture.
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• LSE Sustainability in Practice lecture series
Sustainability Living in Practice
On: Tuesday 9 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Satish Kumar, visiting fellow at Schumacher College.
Believing Cassandra: how to be an optimist in a pessimist's world
On: Tuesday 23 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Alan AtKisson, president and CEO of The AtKisson Group.
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• SIPRI Yearbook 2010 Seminar on nuclear weapons in Europe
On: Thursday 2 December at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speakers: Dr Bates Gill, director of SIPRI, Professor Mary Kaldor
(pictured),
co-director of LSE Global Governance, and Baroness Shirley Williams,
former adviser on nuclear proliferation to prime minister Gordon Brown
This event marks the London launch of the 2010 Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook on nuclear weapons in Europe,
which this year considers world military expenditure increases despite the
financial crisis.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. For more
information, visit the
event web page.
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Chilean Way to Development
Speaker: President Sebastian Pinera Echenique
Recorded: Monday 18 October, approx 65 minutes
Click here to listen
The Political Economy of the Cold War
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson
Recorded: Monday 18 October, approx 85 minutes
Click here to listen
The New Machiavelli: how to wield power in the modern world
Speaker: Jonathan Powell
Recorded: Tuesday 19 October, approx 76 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 Society
profile
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• Society for the Promotion of Indian Culture and Ethos (SPICE)
The only Indian cultural society on campus, SPICE is one of the most
involved national groups at LSE. From organising public lectures and
Bollywood parties, to holding movie premieres and food festivals, we
look to bring together people of all cultures to celebrate the many
aspects of Indian culture.
Society president?
Siddharth Gopakumar
s.gopakumar@lse.ac.uk
Big event or achievement?
Over the years, SPICE has been viewed by the LSE community as one of
the most active and popular societies on campus. There have been huge
student turnouts for the vast majority of our events, most notably our Bollywood CRUSH and highly successful Diwali parties.
Our annual India Week event was awarded the Best LSE Joint Society Event
in 2005-06 and 2006-07, and has since proved to be one of the most
successful events in the LSE calendar. We were also presented with a Highly
Commended Award in 2006-07, a reflection of our accomplishments.
Held at the start of the Lent Term, India Week has become synonymous
with SPICE in recent years. We organise dance shows, musical performances,
ethnic events (henna tattoos and sari fittings, for example), movie
screenings, food tasting sessions, talks and debates right throughout the
week-long extravaganza. This is one event that truly cannot be missed.
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight?
Our Diwali Dhamaka Party is being held on Tuesday 2 November in the
Quad from 7.30pm onwards. There will be live performances, DJ Senator, and food, so don’t miss out. Tickets cost £5 for SPICE members and £7
for non-members. Get your tickets on Houghton Street before they sell out.
Why should people join the society?
As one of the larger and more influential societies at LSE, we are
able to focus our attention on both artistic and intellectual affairs.
At the same time, we also look to keep our members informed of
happenings in India’s political and economic arenas. SPICE members also receive exclusive discounts to the society’s events
for 2010-11, so get in touch if you’re interested.
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A senior member of the School highlights an important issue for
students. • Adrian Hall, Secretary and Director of Administration
All of us at LSE care deeply about higher education and
with so much financial pressure on universities at the moment it’s
impossible not to be concerned about the future.
However, it’s possible for those concerns to become exaggerated and
unhelpful and that’s what seems to have happened this week with ill-informed
suggestions that LSE is considering ‘going private’.
It’s not true.
Howard Davies says, quite clearly, that he sees no evidence that students
or the School generally would benefit from such a move. Andy Farrell,
Director of Finance and Facilities, has advised that he believes the costs
of becoming private outweigh any benefits.
The issue has not been put up for decision by Council or any LSE
committee and there are no plans to do so.
What’s more, proposals as momentous as cutting the link to Government
(and the Higher Education Funding Council for England) could only be
seriously broached if there were substantial appetite among the whole LSE
community for a discussion of the issue. And that is not the case.
As the Director said recently, LSE has to make decisions collectively and
these include some very difficult questions about funding. So it’s vital
that students join the discussion about how LSE can prosper in
financially-tough times. To skew that discussion, before it’s begun, with
alarmist and unsubstantiated claims about 'privatisation' is silly at best,
irresponsible at worst. Student representatives attend all Council meetings,
formal or informal, and are well placed to understand the reality of the
situation.
Of course we all need to make sure we understand the full background of
higher education and the different models proposed for it before coming to
final views. It is in that context that a member of Council asked for
background information about how private universities operate. But no one
has suggested that LSE should pursue this option, much less presented a
thought-through proposal of how it would work and I see no prospect of this.
We don’t yet know exactly what the world will look like after the
Government’s spending cuts and the Browne Review on fees. But we do know
that it must continue to include an LSE which is open to students for their
talent not their wealth, which is sustainable for generations to come and
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Rachael Elliott, head of Residential Life at LSE
I joined LSE's Residential
Services in August this year, in the
newly created post of head of
Residential Life. My professional
work background has, for almost 20
years, been in student support
roles, with the majority of that
experience focussed exclusively on
international students, in one way
or another, in higher education in
London. Short stints in US
non-profit and UK commercial
education sector organisations have
punctuated my longer service with
Brunel University, International
Students House and University
College London.
For fun, I read restaurant
reviews, run an allotment (badly)
and a fantasy football team in the
Barclays League (even more badly). I
am a London junkie and a very, very
amateur architecture enthusiast, a
keen cook, a native of the Black
Country and a fan of electronic
music and Monty Don.
What do you think is likely to
be the most challenging aspect of
this newly created position and what
opportunities does it bring?
The opportunity to contribute to
the excellent student support
practices to be found in residences
and across the wider School, was one
of the attributes that attracted me
to this new role. As with any role,
I expect to be time poor.
What book are you currently
reading and which have you enjoyed
most in the past?
I usually have a few books on the
go. The current choices include
Glitz by Elmore Leonard and
Pevsner London: city of London 1.
Where did you go on your last
holiday?
Sweden for a short summer break,
staying in Stockholm and visiting
Uppsala.
Is there anything you cannot
do and would like to learn?
I cannot make scones rise. Anyone
who is willing to teach me will be
richly rewarded.
What is your favourite part of
London?
Hmm. I have different favourites
for different reasons. Regent’s Park
is superb for some open air
entertainment, formal gardens and
summer ice creams. Seven Dials is
good for gift shopping. For
leisurely walks, you can’t beat
London’s canal towpaths and disused
railway lines.
What would your friend say is
your greatest quality?
Loyalty. It is my greatest
weakness too. |
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