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16 November 2011 |
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Michaelmas term teaching surveys Message from Professor
Janet Hartley (pictured), pro-director for teaching and learning.
In teaching weeks eight and nine, the School will be conducting teaching
surveys. You will be asked to complete a questionnaire in classes/seminars
for half-unit courses, and for any of your other courses on which your
teacher only teaches this term (teaching on full-unit courses is surveyed in
the Lent term).
The questions will ask for your views on the course as a whole at this
particular point in time. They will also ask for your opinion of your
teacher's performance. The survey covers permanent faculty and GTAs.
Surveys will be conducted during classes/seminars, and should take no
more than ten minutes to complete. You might also be asked to complete a
separate questionnaire about lectures. A student volunteer will be asked to
collect completed questionnaires, and to return them in a sealed envelope to
a drop box in the Student Services Centre.
The School takes this exercise very seriously. Results of the teaching
surveys allow us to put in place support and training for teachers who need
it. They also allow us to reward excellence in teaching. Please take the
time to complete the questionnaires.
For more information about teaching surveys,
click here.
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LSE team wins 2011 Deloitte Case Study Competition Suchita
Singh, Suna Yeltekin, Gabriela Francke and Arjun Mehta (pictured), who are
all master's students at LSE, have been named the winners of the 2011
Deloitte Case Study Competition, beating 20 other teams from London and
Oxford.
During the week-long competition the team had to come up with solutions
to a real-life business issue, based on a scenario given to them by
Deloitte. They were given three days to prepare a case briefing which was
then sent to Deloitte for judging.
After being shortlisted, the team presented their solution to a panel of
Deloitte partners and directors. They were named winners and received a
number of prizes including a networking dinner, gift bag and vouchers.
Team member Suchita said: 'The real challenge in pursuing a master's is
not just focusing on academia but the development of your complete
personality. I think such competitions give you a chance to do that, along
with providing a platform to compete with not just the best brains from your
university but other universities as well. I stand more knowledgeable today
than I was before this competition.'
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Economically troubled countries more likely to be led by those with
economics training, according to new research The finance ministers of
economically troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal are more likely to
be highly educated in economics than their peers in other countries,
including the UK, according to new research which was presented at the 2011 Dahrendorf Symposium in Berlin on Wednesday 9 November.
The research by Dr Joachim Wehner of LSE and Professor Mark Hallerberg of
the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin looked at the education of the
political leadership of 27 European countries and 11
non-European OECD countries since 1973.
They found that while 69 per cent of Greek and 55 per cent of Portuguese
finance ministers have had a PhD in economics, this was not true of a single
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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LSE event broadcast on BBC Radio 4 More than 400 people
attended the Department of Management and BBC Radio 4 public conversation, 'The
Darwin Economy: liberty, competition, and the common good', on Thursday
10 November.
At the event Professor Robert Frank, economics professor at Cornell's
Johnson Graduate School of Management, questioned who was the greater
economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin.
The event was broadcast on Analysis on BBC
Radio 4
on Monday 14 November. For those who missed it, the broadcast will be repeated at 9.30pm
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 Notices
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LSE Photo Prize Exhibition 2012: overcoming hurdles LSE Photo
Prize is an annual competition run by LSE Arts and supported by LSE Annual
Fund. The competition is open to all students and staff and is now open for
submissions.
This year’s theme is ‘Overcoming Hurdles’. Winning photos will be
selected by a panel of art professionals and LSE staff, and will be
printed and showcased in an exhibition in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building
from February to April 2012.
For more information on how to enter, visit
LSE Photo Prize 2012.
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Training for students Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Microsoft Office: various topics covering Word 2010, Excel 2010,
PowerPoint 2010 and Outlook 2010
- Academic integrity I
- Communicating assertively
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Get published in The London Globalist
The London Globalist, LSE's student international affairs
publication, is calling for submissions for its next issue.
The theme of the issue is 'Borders'. Contributions are welcomed from
both people with a background in journalism, and those who never have
been published before.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 30 November. Please
note, an editor will be appointed to you, to help you work through your
piece.
Email
editor@londonglobalist.org.uk with your submissions or if you have
any questions.
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 What's
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New events announced....
Repositioning Bangladesh in the Western Imagination
On: Monday 5 December from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor David Lewis (pictured), professor of social
policy and development at LSE.
Discussants: Professor Ramachandra Guha, Philippe Roman Chair in
history and international affairs for the 2011-12 academic year at LSE,
and Professor Naila Kabeer, professor of development studies at
SOAS.
A lecture by Kristalina Georgieva
On: Tuesday 6 December from 1-2pm. The venue will be confirmed
shortly.
Speaker: Kristalina Georgieva (pictured), European commissioner for
international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response.
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Other events include....
The Global Value of the Commonwealth
On: Monday 21 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth secretary general.
Role of the Chinese Diaspora
On: Wednesday 23 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Lord Nat Wei, the youngest and only ethnic Chinese peer in
the House of Lords.
Social Movements in the Age of the Internet
On: Thursday 24 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Manuel Castells, University Professor and the
Wallis Annenberg Chair in communication technology and society at the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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What are you doing at LSE? On:
Monday 21 November at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Paulina Bozek (pictured), CEO and LSE alumna,
Vyacheslav Polonski, LSE Stelios scholar and BSc management 2012, and
Christina Kerr, Barclays Capital recruiter and LSE alumna.
Paulina Bozek, Vyacheslav Polonski and Christina Kerr will give the first
public talk of the 2011/12 World Stage Student and Alumni Lecture Series.
The event is designed to inspire students about the possibilities offered
by an LSE education, and to encourage students to reflect on how they can
gain the utmost from their experience at the School.
This lecture series and reception is a unique event which brings together
current LSE students, staff and alumni, and provides an informal forum in
which they can meet, network and exchange perspectives on how to make the
most of the LSE experience both now and in the future.
For more information or to register your interest, visit
lse.ac.uk/worldstage.
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Ralph Miliband and Parliamentary Socialism -
50th anniversary conference On: Friday 25 November
from 1-5.30pm in the Morishima Conference Room, Lionel Robbins Building
Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism shaped a generation of
activists and scholars. But what are its lessons today? Must parliamentary
politics undermine extra-parliamentary movements? And can Labour ever move
us beyond capitalism?
Speakers will include:
- Tariq Ali
- Robin Archer
- Robin Blackburn
- Hilary Wainwright
The conference is open to staff, researchers and research students but
places are limited. To find out more or to book a place, email
sociology.events@lse.ac.uk.
The conference will be followed by a public lecture which is free and
open to all:
Whatever Happened to Parliamentary Socialism: taking Ralph Miliband
seriously today
On: Friday 25 November from
6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor at
York University, Canada
For more information, visit the
event web listing.
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Two Koreas: past, present and future
On: Saturday 26 November from 9am-5pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House
The LSESU Korean Society present
'Two Koreas: past, present and future', the first student-run
Korean economic and political forum.
The forum aims to promote a global and in-depth understanding of Korea’s
economic development and the role of capital liberalisation in the
development of emerging markets and the volatile political situation in the
Korean Peninsula.
Speakers will include:
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the
Earth Institute at Columbia University
- Kilbiner Dosanjh, member of the
Economist Intelligence Unit
- Professor
Hazel Smith, professor of resilience and security and director of the
Resilience Centre at Cranfield University
- Dr John Swenson-Wright, Fuji Bank senior
university lecturer in modern Japanese studies at the University of
Cambridge.
Tickets for LSE students cost £15. For more
information or to register, visit
www.lseks.com.
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The Student Initiative Forum II On: Saturday 3 December
from 10am-6.30pm at King's College London (Waterloo campus),
Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London SE1 8WA
The Student Initiative Forum II is one of the largest student conferences
on international development and aims to provide students with a critical
insight into the world of development.
Speakers will include:
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University
- Sir Richard Jolly, former assistant secretary general of United
Nations
- The Rt Hon the Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE, global head of
citizenship and diversity, KPMG.
The theme of the forum, ‘Dependent Development: towards a cross-sector
approach?', focuses on the rise of multi-sector partnerships in the field of
development, especially at the level of the private sector, particularly
looking at how specialist fields (e.g. law or finance) and nonprofits can
combine their talents for effective projects in international development.
Tickets cost £25. The registration deadline is Sunday 20 November
(applications are accepted on a rolling basis due to the limited spaces, so
you will be notified for payment if you are shortlisted).
For more information or to register, visit
www.tsiforum.org.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Doing Business with China: problems, challenges and opportunities
Speaker: Stephen Perry
Recorded: Tuesday 8 November, approx 88 minutes
Click here to listen
The City of London
Speaker: Professor David Kynaston
Recorded: Wednesday 9 November, approx 74 minutes
Click here to listen
Crisis in the EU and Eurozone - Austria's response
Speaker: Dr Michael Spindelegger
Recorded: Thursday 10 November, approx 50 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 60
Second Interview
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with..... Madeleine Wright
I completed my MSc in social
policy at LSE in 2010 and I’m
currently a PhD student in the
Department of Social Policy funded
by the ESRC. My research focuses on
women’s reproductive health and
rights in sub-Saharan Africa.
I’m also a student representative
for PhD students in the Department
of Social Policy and I’ve been a
sub-warden at Rosebery Hall since
September 2010.
What are your main activities
and duties at Rosebery over any
holiday period?
Over holiday periods, main
activities and duties include taking
care of any pastoral and welfare
issues that may arise and organising
events for students staying in
halls.
Were there many students in
residence over the last Christmas
and Easter periods and were there
any special arrangements made?
Often there are fewer students at
the hall over holiday periods.
Sub-wardens help ensure that
students are involved in social
events, both at Rosebery and those
organised by the School. During the
last Christmas break Rachel Elliott,
head of residential life at LSE,
kindly invited students to her home
for a few hours on Christmas Eve. I
took several students and we enjoyed
delicious home-made food and
Christmas drinks.
At Rosebery, we also hosted a
'Christmas drinks' event for
students a few days before
Christmas, and on Christmas Day I
made a traditional Christmas dinner
with a few students.
For Christmas celebrations this
year, sub-wardens plan to take
students to social events hosted by
LSE as well as hold several
festive-themed evenings in the hall
which will involve costumes and
games and, of course, a Christmas
dinner.
What are the term-time
responsibilities of a sub-warden?
Sub-wardens take care of pastoral
and welfare issues among students
living in halls of residences. At
Rosebery, sub-wardens will generally
hold a few events at the start of
the year in order to increase
visibility and help students
integrate into hall life. Last year
we held a pub quiz, movie and games
nights, and a postgraduate drinks
evening during Freshers' week. We
also held two international food
nights that were both very
successful.
Sub-wardens are required to
attend termly warden team meetings
and committee and general meetings
in order to discuss hall issues and
plan events. Other responsibilities
include dealing with students making
excessive noise during silence
hours, assisting with fire
evacuations, dealing with issues
such as smoking which is not
permitted in the hall, and referring
students to relevant information
sources and services at the School.
What is the most unusual
experience you have had at Rosebery?
Late in the evening on Valentines
Day last year, there was a leak and
water began dripping into the
reception area and some of the ceiling
began caving in. With the help of
some of the social committee
members, we had to use big
containers to hold the water, block
off the entrance, and try to stop
students from running any water in
the building, all whilst waiting for
the engineers to arrive, which took a
few hours.
If you were offered the trip
of a lifetime, where would you go
and why?
I’d love to go on one of the
British Horse Society’s challenge
rides, either to Iceland to ride
Icelandic horses or Peru to trek
through the Andes. I love horse
riding and these are two places I’d
love to see. |
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