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18 January 2012 |
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The National Student Survey
Message from Professor Janet Hartley (pictured), pro-director for
teaching and learning.
Dear third year undergraduate students,
The National Student Survey is now open. This is an annual survey of over
400,000 undergraduate students across the UK and has the support of the LSE
Students’ Union.
It is quick to complete and it is an opportunity for you to tell us about
your experience during your time at LSE. Your response will be anonymous and
the results of the survey are published on Unistats.com.
I urge you to participate. The results are important to us. We use
them to make improvements to teaching and to expand the opportunities
available at the School.
You will have received a separate email from the survey organisers -
Ipsos MORI - with details of how to complete the survey. You can find more
information at
www.thestudentsurvey.com.
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Freedom of speech and good campus relations Re-orientation is
an opportunity for review and it is therefore timely to remind ourselves of
some of our core values.
LSE has proud traditions of intellectual freedom and a culture free from
discrimination. The School believes that everyone shall be entitled to equal
treatment on the basis of individual merit and without discrimination.
Every member of the School, and those associated with it, is entitled to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to hold opinions without
interference, disability or disadvantage, and to freedom of expression
within the law.
The School has an important Code of Practice on Free Speech. The aim of
the Code is to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secured for
students, employees and other members of the School and for all persons
authorised to be on School premises, including visiting speakers. We are
committed to maintaining and promoting good campus relations amongst all
those who work or visit LSE.
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World's first financial tribunal opens for business
A tribunal devoted to settling the world's most complex and contentious
financial cases has opened for business in The Hague.
Comprised of a group of judges and other international legal and market
experts with more than 2,000 years of relevant collective experience,
the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Disputes Centre will take on cases which are too
specialised for many national or local courts.
It also aims to create an internationally-agreed body of law in areas
where different countries often hand down conflicting rulings.
It was the brainchild of Professor Jeffrey Golden of LSE's Department of
Law and he is chairman of its management board.
The tribunal expects to handle multi-billion-dollar cases in fields such
as derivatives and structured financial transactions. Its role is all
the more urgent, argue its founders, because of the uncertainty created
by world financial crisis.
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European alternatives?
The Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of
International Development is working on a new project to map pro-, anti-,
and alternative European initiatives emerging from social and political
movements in Europe.
We believe that no single group of researchers can possibly tap into the
wealth of rapidly changing developments in contemporary Europe, and that
in order to capture a snapshot of the current situation, it is necessary
to draw on the knowledge of many.
We are lucky at LSE to have an extremely geographically diverse and
well-informed student body, and so are asking our students to turn
reporters: we have established an information-gathering platform on our
Global Civil Society
website and invite LSE students to post information about any new
European initiatives coming out of civil society, social movements,
think tanks, or other organisations proposing solutions for Europe, or
those taking a particularly anti-European stance.
All information posted will feed into the project, with the potential
for a number of students to develop their posts into more in-depth
research to be published at a later date.
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 Notices
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Olympic fever
We are interested to know about anyone who is involved in the London
Olympic and Paralympic Games, taking place this summer.
So if you are working, volunteering or even competing, we would love to
know about it. Get in touch by emailing
pressoffice@lse.ac.uk.
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Holocaust memorial The LSE Interfaith Forum will be holding a
Holocaust memorial on Friday 27 January at 12 noon in the Shaw Library,
sixth floor of the Old Building.
All students and staff are welcome. The memorial service will feature the
LSE choir.
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Training for students Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Structuring MSc Dissertations and Long Essays
- Overcoming Perfectionism
- Software Surgery
- What You Really Need to Know About the Internet
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Equality and Diversity Calendar for 2012 The Equality and
Diversity team has produced a calendar for 2012, which contains dates for
relevant events, programmes and deadlines.
It is a living document that will be updated throughout the year with
forthcoming events relating to the School’s Equality and Diversity agenda.
Email
equality.and.diversity@lse.ac.uk if you would like your event to feature
in the calendar.
The calendar is available for download from the
Equality and Diversity website. Updated calendars will be posted on the
same page at the beginning of each month.
Though the calendar is intended to be a web calendar, it can be printed
out to make a great addition to your desks and diaries.
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LSESU Literature Society poetry competition To coincide with this
year's LSE Literary Festival, the LSESU Literature Society has organised a
poetry competition for students and staff to show some literary creativity.
To get involved, submit any self-written poem relating to 'Aestheticism:
is beauty the basic principle?' to
su.soc.literature@lse.ac.uk
by Monday 6 February.
Prizes include publication of work, one Kindle and two £50 book tokens.
Prize-giving will take place at the LSE Space for Thought Literary
Festival 2012, after a special event celebrating poetry on Thursday 1 March.
For more information on this event,
click here.
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Investment Society Student Pitch Passionate about
investment? Have interesting insights and ideas about the future of the
global economy? If so, then take part in the
Investment Society
Student Pitch - a student competition taking place on Saturday 25
February.
Competitors must present to a panel of judges, made up of some of the
UK’s most experienced and successful investors and fund managers. The
presentation must be about an investment idea you have or where you think
the global economy is heading.
Winners will be awarded cash prizes and, if you impress the judges, you
could also win interviews for internships in their firms.
You can choose to participate in either one of the two sections, and
present an investment you or your team (of up to three people) have made, or
your predictions for the future of the global economy. The top five
applications in each section will present in front of the panel of judges.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 31 January. To apply,
visit
investmentsociety.co.uk/?page_id=378. If you have any questions, email
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 What's
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New events include....
How Labour’s Traditions Can Renew Beveridge for the 21st Century
On: Monday 23 January at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Liam Byrne MP (pictured), shadow secretary of state for work
and pensions and coordinator of Labour's policy review.
Outside In: a conversation with Peter Hain
On: Monday 30 January at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Peter Hain MP (pictured), Labour MP for Neath and shadow
secretary of state for Wales.
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Upcoming events include....
Willpower: self-control, decision fatigue, and energy depletion
On: Tuesday 24 January at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Roy F Baumeister, one of the world's most influential
psychologists.
Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism
On: Wednesday 25 January at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor Martti Koskenniemi, director of the Erik Castrén
Institute of International Law and Human Rights and visiting professor at
LSE.
From Regional to Global Players: the emergence of Asian firms in the global
economy
On: Thursday 26 January at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung, professor of economic
geography at the National University of Singapore.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Is It Time For a Digital Detox?
Speaker: Daniel Sieberg
Recorded: Tuesday 10 January
Click here to listen
About Time - examining the case for a shorter working week
Speakers: Professor Tim Jackson, Professor Juliet Schor,
Professor Lord Skidelsky and Dr Edward Skidelsky
Recorded: Wednesday 11 January
Click here to listen
The Lean Startup
Speaker: Eric Ries
Recorded: Thursday 12 January
Click here to listen |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Jen Wilkins
I'm a third year politics and philosophy student and this year's RAG president. In case you don't know, RAG stands for Raising and Giving and we're part of the LSE Students' Union.
I've been involved in RAG since my first year and love how many diverse opportunities it presents, whether you're on the committee or just want to come to an event.
LSESU RAG week takes place this
term. Can you tell us more?
RAG Week is a whole week
dedicated to fundraising for our
three charities (this year: War
Child, Action Against Hunger and
National Aids Trust) and will be in
week six this term.
Things that you
can expect include our annual sky
dive, gunge a sabb, battle of the
halls, Mr LSE, row-a-thon and much
much more. We always encourage
societies to hold their own events
during the week so if you're
interested get in touch. It's set to
be an exciting week.
For the first time, students and
staff have been able to choose
which three charities will be
supported during the year. Why the
change?
RAG has only been going for a few
years at LSE and is fairly small
compared to many universities but
it's growing year after year. We
felt the move towards an online
voting system would allow more
students to feel involved in the
decision making process and
connected to the charities we raise
money for.
After all, without people
turning up to our events there would
be no money raised. I think it's
important that people have a say in
where there money is going.
What would you do if you were LSE
director for a day?
Work with students on a more
stringent ethical investment policy.
Who would be your top five dinner party
guests?
An eclectic mix of people. Noam
Chomsky, Rik Mayall, Stephen Fry,
Camilla Batmanghelidjh and Caitlin
Moran.
What has been your most embarrassing
incident so far?
So far in life my most
embarrassing moment was probably
forgetting my lines in a big school
Shakespeare performance. At LSE I'm
sure I embarrass myself on a daily
basis.
What is your earliest childhood
holiday memory?
I think going to Disneyland and
being too little to go on most
things. I probably went on 'It's
a
Small World' about 20 times. |
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