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6 June 2012 |
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LSE maintains its First in People & Planet Green League LSE has
been awarded a First for its environmental and ethical performance in the
People & Planet Green League 2012.
This is the fourth year LSE has achieved a First in the Green League. The
School is ranked at no 42 out of 145 participating universities. LSE ranks
as joint second of the Russell Group universities and joint third of all
universities in London. The School's position has declined from 22nd place
in the 2011 tables.
The Green League, published in the Guardian, is People & Planet's
award winning environmental ranking of the UK's universities. Universities
are ranked against 13 environmental policy and performance-related criteria,
including environmental policy, carbon management, ethical procurement and
staff and student engagement.
LSE Director Judith Rees said: 'It is encouraging that LSE has maintained
its First for the fourth year in a row so my thanks go to the committed
staff and students whose actions have made this possible. The fact that we
have slipped in the rankings, however, highlights the fact that we still
face significant challenges. If we are to meet both our own and government
targets, the whole School community must play their part. I hope that
everyone will continue to bear in mind the importance of working as sustainably as possible for the future.'
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Meet LSE’s Olympic team continued Since the last edition of
Student News, more students have got in touch to tell us how they are
getting involved in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games:
- Bonita Grupp, Department of Economic History, will be a
protocol team member at Wimbledon during the Olympics.
- Jonathan Haines, Department of Statistics, is going to be an
official programme seller at the Olympic Games.
- Nicholas Wong, Department of International Relations, will be
working as service coordinator for London 2012 Accessible Shuttles,
which will go between the stadium and main stations.
If you are also involved in the Games, let us know what you are doing by
emailing pressoffice@lse.ac.uk.
For more information on the Games, visit
www.london2012.com. |
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 Notices
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Changes to immigration rules Tier 4 maintenance funds
Students applying for a Tier 4 Student visa must show maintenance funds of
£1,000 per month (plus tuition fees).
Accommodation payments
Students living in some LSE accommodation can deduct a maximum of £1,000
from the amount of maintenance needed for their Tier 4 application.
Cap on time spent studying in the UK
There is now a time limit of five years for students studying at degree
level (undergraduate and taught master's) in the UK.
Closure of Tier 1 Post-Study Work (PSW)
Tier 1 PSW is now closed to new applicants. Graduates wanting to work in the
UK after their studies will now have to apply for Tier 2 (general) or
another immigration category if possible.
To apply for Tier 2 you will need to have a graduate level job offer
(with a minimum salary of £20,000) from an employer with a Tier 2 licence.
Please note that the International Student Immigration Service (ISIS) specialise in the student immigration rules and your
potential employer will be able to advise you on applying for Tier 2.
Please refer to the
ISIS webpages for more
detailed information about all these changes.
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Training for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Summer term opening arrangements from Wednesday 6 June LSE
Garrick
8am-6pm Monday-Friday
*Olympic Games 8am-3pm
Fourth Floor Restaurant
11am-3pm Monday-Friday
CLOSED 11, 12 and 13 July for Presentation Ceremonies
CLOSED 13 August - 28 September inclusive
Plaza Café
10am-6pm Monday-Friday
*Olympic Games 10am-3pm
Café 54
8.30am-4.30pm Monday-Friday
*Olympic Games 8.30am-3pm
Staff Dining Room and Café Bar (Members only)
Café Bar 10am-4.30pm Monday-Friday
3-7 September 10am-3pm
Dining Room 12.30-2.15pm Monday-Friday
CLOSED 23 July - 31 August inclusive
George IV
12 noon-11pm Monday-Friday
Fourth Floor
Café Bar
CLOSED
RE-OPENS - 1 October
NAB Mezzanine
CLOSED
RE-OPENS - 8 October
Olympic and Paralympic Games: potential disruption
(27 July - 12 August and 27 August - 9 September)
Due to the uncertainty of the impact that the Olympic and Paralympic Games
may have on business, these published opening times may be subject to
change.
It is anticipated that the Catering hospitality service and catering
outlets may experience some disruption during this time. Although we will do
our best to keep any disruption to a minimum, we would appreciate your
patience and understanding.
It is likely that there will be disruption to our suppliers' delivery
arrangements. Therefore, please plan your events and place any hospitality
orders well in advance. Please also note that it may not be possible for us
to respond to last minute changes.
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Moodle is changing - and will be unavailable from 25-27 June
The Centre for Learning Technology will be upgrading Moodle on 25 and
26 June. Moodle will be unavailable from 25-27 June, so please make
sure that you do not need to access it for anything within that period.
Upgraded Moodle will have improved and additional functionality.
We hope you will like the changes, which include improved navigation, new customisable home
page and personal files area. For a quick overview of what you
can expect, watch ‘Using Moodle as a
Student’.
We have also changed the look of Moodle in response to feedback from our
student survey, in which you told us you wanted it to look more in line with
other LSE systems. For a preview, have a look at the
prototype version.
We have tested the new version of Moodle and a pilot with 16 courses
was run during the Lent term. Feedback from both staff and students was very positive.
But of course we remain open to further feedback so please email
clt-support@lse.ac.uk. For more
information, visit Moving
to Moodle.
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Offers at Waterstone's Economists' Bookshop
Waterstone's Economists' Bookshop, which is located on the LSE campus, is
running the following offers:
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Spend and Save Card - one stamp for every £10 spent and a £10 gift card
for every ten stamps, running until the end of December 2012.
- 3-for-2 promotion on all children's book until Monday 11 June.
For more information, email
enquiries@economists.waterstones.co.uk.
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LSE Perspectives June's LSE Perspectives gallery is now online.
You can view the gallery
online here.
The gallery features 12 striking images submitted by LSE students and staff. Each image reflects a unique perspective on a particular scene.
If you have taken any artistic images on your travels, from your home
town or even just here in London why not submit them for LSE perspectives so
that they can be shared with the LSE community.
For more information and to submit your images, visit
LSE Perspectives Submissions. Previous galleries can be
found here.
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Experimental party by the Department of Philosophy band 'The Critique of
Pure Rhythm'
In The Republic, Plato argued that harmonies encouraging of drunkenness,
softness or indolence (…) as well as those that are termed ‘relaxed’,
should be banned, because they 'disturb the soul' and 'elicit emotions and
desires utterly unbecoming to philosopher-kings.'
As philosophers in a department of scientific method, the members of the
Critique of Pure Rhythm are by temperament sceptical of Plato’s untested
assertions about the effects of music. They therefore invite you to
participate in an experiment.
Join them for a summer party on Tuesday 12 June from 6.30pm in the
Quad, East Building, where they will play rock ‘n’ roll to see if it really
does disturb your soul. Everyone is welcome - the more participants, the
greater the statistical significance of their results.
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Skip fit lessons
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley is running skip
fit lessons for all students and staff at LSE.
Build up your fitness, burn calories and increase your stamina, all within
an hour.
The next lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on
Tuesday 12 June, Tuesday 3 July, Tuesday 10 July,
Tuesday 14 August, Tuesday 21 August, Tuesday 4 September,
Tuesday 11 September and Tuesday 25 September.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free to attend. More sessions will take place during Michaelmas term.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Treatment Clinic
The LSE Treatment Clinic, which welcomes LSE staff and students, is open on
the first floor of Tower Two (due to the building works, access is currently
from the first floor of Tower One).
The clinic offers professional treatments at reduced rates for LSE,
including acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage from practitioners with
over 20 years' experience between them. Their combined expertise is effective
in the treatment of pain relief, including musculoskeletal pain, repetitive
strain injury, tension headaches, posture advice, sports injuries, anxiety,
insomnia, migraine, and many other ailments.
The practitioners are:
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Hanya Chlala
Acupuncture available in a dual bed setting on Wednesdays and Fridays
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Laura Dent
Sports massage available on Mondays
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Tim Hanwell
Osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Acupuncture is excellent in helping with the withdrawal of smoking and
managing hay fever, and osteopathy and sports massage can help if you
are training or for more general sports injuries.
Appointments are available Monday-Friday from 9am-6pm and can be
booked online at
www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk. The clinic will be open throughout the
summer months. All consultations are strictly confidential and sessions will
last between 30 and 60 minutes depending upon the treatment.
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Are you an aspiring chef?
The Stu,
a food and health magazine for students,
is searching for an aspiring student chef to
create and host a series of cooking shows.
Applicants don’t need to have any professional cooking experience, they
just need to have a real passion for food and love cooking.
The series will consist of 17 episodes shown online from September
2012. Whoever is chosen will have a lot of input into the creative process
of researching and producing the series and its content, helping to develop and
share recipes, give cooking advice, coordinate interviews and much more.
The chosen chef will work with The Stu in London and get paid for
his/her time. Visit
www.thestu.co.uk/nido for more information and to apply. |
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 What's
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Upcoming LSE events include....
Red Tape: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India
On: Monday 11 June at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Akhil Gupta, professor of anthropology and
director of the Center for India and South Asia at UCLA.
The New Growth Strategy: how responsible companies are profitable companies
On: Wednesday 13 June at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Anders Dahlvig, former president and CEO of IKEA.
A Capitalism for the People
On: Thursday 21 June at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Luigi Zingales, Robert C McCormack professor of
entrepreneurship and finance and the David G Booth Faculty Fellow at the
University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
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New Exhibition - Wittgenstein: philosophy and photography On
until Friday 29 June in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building.
This new exhibition showcases a selection of prints and drawings all
connected to Wittgenstein’s life as a philosopher and his interest in
photography.
It presents pictures taken by Wittgenstein, pictures from his
photo album, and pictures taken by friends and relatives. They are
illuminated by quotations from Wittgenstein's writings and from his
correspondence with his Cambridge friends, colleagues and his family.
The exhibition will be of interest to students and researchers, and
anyone interested in learning about Wittgenstein through his own writing,
photographs and through correspondence about him.
The exhibition is free and open to all, with no ticket required. Visitors
are welcome Monday-Friday between 10am and 8pm (unless otherwise stated).
For more information,
click here or contact LSE Arts at
arts@lse.ac.uk or on 020 7107 5342.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Emerging Left in the 'Emerging' World
Speaker: Professor Jayati Ghosh
Recorded: Monday 28 May, approx 92 minutes
Click here to listen
Kiss of the Dragon? China’s Geoeconomic Strategy in a Changing Global Order
Speakers: Jonathan Fenby, Guy De Jonquieres, and Linda Yueh
Recorded: Tuesday 29 May, approx 97 minutes
Click here to listen
End This Depression Now!
Speaker: Professor Paul Krugman
Recorded: Tuesday 29 May, approx 89 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Neil Shah
I'm a final year BSc economics
student at LSE. I am originally from
Wellingborough, a small town in
Northamptonshire. Outside the classroom, I love
playing different kinds of sports and
going out, especially on the LSEAU
Wednesday nights.
This summer you will be a
medal/flower bearer for both the
Olympic and Paralympic Games. Can
you tell us more?
I will
be at the Aquatics Centre
for the Olympic Games and Greenwich
Park for the Paralympics. I'm
part of the Victory Ceremonies
Teams and we will be conducting the
medal ceremonies after the finals.
As a medal/flower bearer, I
will be holding the medal trays or
the flowers to give to the athletes
on the podium. It should be a very
exciting role as not only will I be
able to meet world famous athletes
but I'll be shown on TV to millions of
viewers worldwide.
So far we haven’t been given any
more information about our roles;
however they have organised both
role and venue specific training in
June and July.
What made you decide to volunteer
and have any of the arrangements
surprised, uplifted or disappointed
you so far?
I first applied to be a volunteer
in September 2010 and it was a spur
of the moment decision. My friend
and I were just browsing on the
internet when the applications
opened so we both applied, not
thinking anything would come of it.
We applied for almost every role in
all of the venues, hoping we would
be given
something. Then about 10
months later, I received an email
inviting me for an interview and was
allocated the role in December 2011.
Since I applied, the hype of the
Games has gradually increased and I'm now very excited to be
taking part and to have this once in a
lifetime opportunity. I think the
arrangements have been great,
especially for all the volunteers.
The organisers have put in a huge
effort to make sure the timings
are correct and I am almost
surprised that everything is going
to plan.
Do you play any sport - how good
are you?
I like to a play a range of
sports throughout the year, however
my main sport is badminton. I have
been playing since I was 11, playing
for Northants County and then with
LSE Men’s 1st for the past three years.
I was also the LSE badminton
president this year.
Luckily, I have managed to get
some tickets for the badminton
events at the Olympics, which should
be great.
Where is your favourite place to
dine out and which dish do you enjoy
there?
My favourite place to eat out has
to be Ping Pong for their dumplings.
Have you ever appeared on stage
in any capacity?
The last time I appeared on stage
was in sixth form, where I was a
percussionist/pianist for the
school’s concert band.
What career would you like to be
pursuing in 10 years' time?
I don’t really know, but I know
that I would like to be pursuing it
on the top floor of my own skyscraper! |
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