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29 May 2013 |
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Pensions: auto enrolment
As you may be aware, changes in pensions law means that starting from
October 2012, up to 11 million workers will be automatically enrolled
into a workplace pension. Larger employers have gone first, with small
and medium sized employers following over the next six years. The date
for the LSE to implement these changes is 1 July 2013.
If you are over 21 years old and you earn more than £787 in any given
month, you will be placed into a School pension scheme. Contributions from
this will be taken from your pay.
Staff will be able to opt out of the pension scheme once they have been
automatically enrolled and details of how to do this will be sent to individuals at the same time as they are placed in the scheme. Employers will
have a duty to re-enrol those workers who have opted out automatically
every three years.
As auto enrolment is being rolled out across all employers over the
coming years, it may also affect students undertaking summer jobs in other
organisations.
For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/pensionsAutoEnrolment.
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LSE renews its commitment to the Living Wage
LSE renewed its commitment to the Living Wage by signing
the Living Wage Accreditation Licence Agreement, becoming only the
second university institution to sign up for the accreditation which is
supported by Citizens UK.
LSE has been an active promoter of the scheme since Council approved the
adoption of the Living Wage several years ago. The accreditation will ensure that all
contracted staff employed by third parties, such as our cleaners and security
staff, are paid an hourly wage rate which is set independently and
updated annually.
Andy Farrell, director of finance and facilities at LSE, said: 'We are
delighted to be the second university to sign the accreditation agreement.
The signing provides a renewed focus and commitment to this work and I am
delighted that LSE is in the vanguard. Hopefully others will follow.'
Rhys Moore, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said: 'We're thrilled
that LSE has reaffirmed its commitment to the Living Wage. The School has
been a longstanding ally and champion of the campaign and will set an
example for others to follow.'
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LSE Library launches Emily Wilding Davison online exhibition A
unique collection of materials documenting the life and death of Emily
Wilding Davison (pictured) has been launched online by the LSE Library.
The online exhibition commemorates the centenary of Davison’s protest at
the Epsom Derby
and explores Emily’s role as a leader in the Suffragette movement,
whilst opening up the collection to the wider public.
The exhibition has been curated by Elizabeth Chapman, director of LSE
Library Services, and Professor June Purvis, emeritus professor of women's
and gender history at the University of Portsmouth.
To view the exhibition,
click here.
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LSE student wins International Media Awards Cutting Edge
Prize Nabila Ramdani (pictured), a PhD student in the
Department of International History, won the International Media Awards Cutting
Edge Prize on Saturday 11 May in a ceremony held in London at the Oxford and
Cambridge Club.
The prize is awarded by the Next Century Foundation to
journalists in recognition of their high standards of analysis and reporting
on the Middle East and North Africa, often in conflict situations.
Nabila said: 'I am absolutely astonished but deeply honoured to receive
this Award, being up against so many outstanding colleagues. Winning awards
was never the reason why I went into journalism. But what an award means, of
course, is that your work has been recognised by your peers and indeed the
people who follow it. And for that, I am extremely grateful.'
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LSE Volunteer of the Year and Voluntary Organisation of the Year
announced Congratulations to
Cat Rawsthorne (pictured) for winning the LSE Volunteer of the Year
award. Over the past year she has managed the LSE FoodCycle hub, recruiting
almost 100 volunteers, has volunteered at YELP and sat on the Oxfam Youth
Board. Well done to all the
other students who were shortlisted as well.
Congratulations to
IntoUniversity for winning the LSE Voluntary Organisation of the Year.
Over the past year it has given LSE students many opportunities to really
improve the communities they live in.
The winners were announced at the LSE Volunteer Centre and LSESU RAG
volunteering celebration evening on Wednesday 8 May. You can view the
photographs from the night on the LSE Volunteer Centre
Facebook page.
For more information about the voluntary organisations that work with the
LSE Volunteer Centre or to get involved in volunteering yourself, visit the
LSE Volunteer Centre.
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Next advisor to female students appointed LSE's Academic Nominations Committee has appointed Dr Wendy-Sigle Rushton
(pictured)
of the Gender Institute as the next adviser to female students.
Dr Rushton will succeed Dr Shani Orgad from 1 August 2013.
As adviser to female students, Dr Rushton will be available to discuss
issues of concern to women students in the School and to offer advice and
support to women students with personal problems.
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LSE team through to Hult Prize final A team of LSE students has
won the Hult Prize Global Online Event for its solution which utilises
cell phones to aggregate food suppliers and urban slum consumers while also
utilising a micro-franchise model to scale.
The Hult Prize, the largest social enterprise competition in the world,
brings together the brightest college and university students from around
the globe to focus on solving one of the world’s key social challenges. The
LSE team, which initially competed in Dubai, has been graciously supported
by LSE's Director's Fund.
'Without the Director's Fund, we wouldn't have even had a chance to
compete,' says Jonah Brotman, MSc student in International Development and
Humanitarian Emergencies and team captain. 'This is a life-changing
opportunity and we promise to make LSE proud.'
The LSE team has now been selected for the Hult Prize Accelerator in
Boston over the summer which will conclude with a pitch to the Clinton
Global Initiative for $1 million USD in start-up capital.
The team includes: Suraj Gudka (BSc Accounting and Finance), Sofia
Zabolotskih (BSc International Relations), Carolina Medina-Gutierrez (MSc
International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies), Verena Liedgens (MPA
Public and Social Policy), and Jonah Brotman (International Development and
Humanitarian Emergencies).
For more information, check out the project at
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Strategic Review discussion groups and web
review
As part of the Strategic Review process, a set of 10 discussion groups
are being held with students and staff from around the School during
the summer term.
The groups are focusing on five key questions that the Review aims to
consider. These topics include LSE’s structure and composition, its
place in the world, and the future of teaching and learning in the UK and
overseas. We are half way through the groups, and the contributions from all
participants have been thoughtful, considered and engaged.
There are five groups left to run, looking at the use of LSE’s physical
space, and how the School can support knowledge exchange and impact
activities, so if you would like to participate, contact Jane Tinkler at
j.tinkler@lse.ac.uk
We are also
currently undertaking a Web Review as part of the School-wide Strategic
Review. The aim is to significantly improve the LSE website for all users,
from the thousands of prospective students who log on each year, to current
students and staff to alumni.
We want views from across the School. Anyone interested in being part of
a focus group or just feeding in their views should email Hayley Reed at
h.reed@lse.ac.uk.
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Get involved with Residential Life
Residential Services is looking for postgraduate students to become
part of the 2013-14 subwarden team.
Subwardens provide out of hours support to students, help the warden to
maintain hall discipline and organise and attend residence events. The
role-holder can benefit by developing skills, improving their
employability and by receiving free accommodation plus an annual
Honorarium.
If you have knowledge and experience of providing pastoral support and
living in a hall of residence, and are friendly, approachable and work
well as part of a team, please submit your application.
For more information, visit the
vacancy posting or email
residential.life@lse.ac.uk. Applications must be received by 11.50pm
on Sunday 2 June.
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Would you be interested in working at these events?
Student Recruitment is looking for students to help at the following
events:
Open Day on Wednesday 3 July
- LSE Helpers, 8am-4.30pm, in the Peacock Theatre and around campus
- Accommodation Helpers, 11.15am-4.30pm, conducting tours of High
Holborn or Bankside (for those resident in High Holborn or Bankside
respectively). You will be paid £30-45 for working at the Open Day.
Taster Courses on Friday 5 July
We are looking for students from the following departments to give campus
tours and have lunch with attendees (12-1.30pm), and some to help out with
Q&A sessions (3.15-4pm):
- Anthropology
- Geography
- International History
- Law
- Philosophy
- Sociology
You will be paid £10-15 for working at the Taster Courses.
If you are interested in working at either of these days, contact Darren
Duffy at d.duffy@lse.ac.uk outlining
which event you would like to work at, the role you are interested in, and
your department.
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Computer tip of the week
Using the Show Desktop button in Windows 7 and 8
The Desktop (what you see when you turn your computer on) is great for
storing shortcuts. If you want to use one of those shortcuts after you’ve
opened several files, you don’t have to minimise each open window
individually. Use the Show Desktop button instead.
In Windows 7, and in Office on Windows 8, too, the Show Desktop
button looks like a chrome bar located at the far right end of the Task Bar,
next to the time. When you rest your mouse pointer on this button, the
desktop is previewed and the name of the button (Show Desktop)
appears, but these disappear again as soon as you move the mouse. Click the
Show Desktop button to go to the desktop.
If you have an IT question, check out our
online guides and FAQs or attend our weekly
Software Surgeries. Subscribe to the
IT Training mailing list to stay informed of upcoming courses and
workshops. A huge range of additional computer training resources, including
our
'Tip of the Week' archive, are available from the
IT Training website.
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Fourth Floor Restaurant - Feel Good Food Days LSE Catering will
be holding Feel Good Food Days on Tuesday 4 June and Thursday 6
June in the Fourth Floor Restaurant, Old Building.
As well as raising awareness and promoting the sustainable aspects of the
food served, LSE Catering aims to demonstrate that limiting meat in your diet
and using healthier ingredients, seasonal vegetables, fish from sustainable
stocks and higher animal welfare produce can benefit your health, the
environment and animal welfare.
World cuisine options will offer reduced meat and increased vegetarian
alternatives. Come along and enjoy the ‘feel good’ experience.
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Vice-chair of LSE Court and Council The School is seeking a
vice-chair of its Court and Council. Anne Lapping has served in the role
with distinction since 2007 and will be stepping down as vice-chair in July
2014.
For more information,
click here. Suggestions of those who might be suitable, or expressions
of interest, should be sent in confidence to the School Secretary at
s.m.scholefield@lse.ac.uk by
Friday 14 June.
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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 4 June, Tuesday 11 June,
Tuesday 25 June,
Tuesday 2 July,
Tuesday 16 July and
Tuesday 23 July.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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2013 London Charity Football Tournament for Sichuan Earthquake
Birbeck Sport Business Centre, University of London, invite LSE students
to take part in a seven-a-side charity football tournament on Saturday 8
June at Mellish Fields, Canada Water, London.
On Saturday 20 April, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude struck China in Ya’an,
a town in Sichuan Province. The disaster has caused at least 200 deaths,
with 15,000 people badly injured and millions of property losses. All
funds raised from the tournament will be delivered to Sichuan Province
via China Education Development Foundation.
For more information and to register, visit the
Facebook page.
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Win two return tickets on the Eurostar
Louise Laker (pictured), sustainability assistant, will attempt to cycle from
London to Paris in 24 hours this July to raise money for Scope.
As part
of her fundraising, she is raffling two return tickets on the Eurostar for the charity.
Raffle tickets are £5 for two, £10 for five, or £20 for 10. Eurostar tickets
are valid for two people to travel to Paris, Disneyland, Brussels,
Calais or Lille.
See
www.justgiving.com/Louise-Laker to enter the prize draw.
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More for less - LSE offer for GAIL’s Kitchen GAIL's Kitchen is
running a buy one, get one free offer for LSE staff and students. Just show
your LSE ID card and when you purchase one drink, the second one will be
free.
GAIL's Kitchen makes dishes inspired by bread and the bread oven, and
utlises all the great ingredients and suppliers used every day at GAIL's
Artisan Bakery. For more on GAIL's Kitchen, see
www.gailskitchen.co.uk.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Student News
readers, email Margaret Newson, LSE purchasing manager, at
m.newson@lse.ac.uk.
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LSESU Visual Arts Society Exhibition - extended
The LSESU Visual Arts Society’s annual year-end exhibition of student
work is on display in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building until Friday
14 June.
Its closing date has been extended, so be sure to take a break from
exams and stop by to see the artistic talents of LSE’s students.
For more information,
click here.
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Forthcoming events at LSE include...
Green Philosophy
On: Wednesday 5 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Dr Rupert Read, chair of the Green House thinktank,
East of England Green Party co-ordinator and a reader in Philosophy at
UEA, and Professor Roger Scruton, a philosopher, writer and
consultant.
Representing Europeans: a pragmatic approach
On: Thursday 6 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Richard Rose, one of the world's leading political
scientists.
Can Europe Lead in a Post-western World?
On: Tuesday 11 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Dr Jaimini Bhagwati, high commissioner of India to the UK,
Professsor Mary Kaldor, director of the Civil Society and Human
Security Research Unit at LSE, Mark Leonard, co-founder and director
of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
Superdiversity and the Unequal City
On: Wednesday 19 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Claire Alexander, professor of sociology at the
University of Manchester, Dr Rob Berkeley, director of Runnymede, the
UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.
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Things to Do with Words: illustrations from Italian fascism
(1919-1922) and Georgia lynchings (1875-1930) On: Monday 3 June
from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Roberto Franzosi (pictured),
professor of sociology and linguistics at Emory University.
This talk will illustrate the power of Quantitative Narrative Analysis, a
quantitative social science approach to texts developed by the speaker using
data collected from newspapers on the rise of Italian fascism and lynchings
in the American 'Deep South'. It will show how narrative data lend
themselves to cutting-edge tools of data visualisation and analysis as
dynamic network graphs and maps in Google Earth and other GIS software, and
how QNA data provide the basis for fascinating digital humanities projects.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a
first come, first served basis. For more information, email
sociology.events@lse.ac.uk
or call 020 7955 6828.
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Models Behaving Badly: why confusing illusion with reality can lead to
disasters, on Wall Street and in life
On: Wednesday 10 July at 6pm at the Institute of Physics, 76
Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT.
Speaker: Professor Emanuel Derman (pictured), head of risk at Prisma Capital
Partners and a professor at Columbia University.
In this lecture, organised by the Institute of Physics, Professor
Emanuel Derman will be talking about his experiences in both the
financial and physics worlds while exploring the collision between human
needs and desires, mathematical modelling and economics that have
featured so dramatically in the recent financial crisis.
The talk is free to attend but places are limited, so register your
attendance at the earliest possible opportunity. To register, visit
http://publiclectures2013.iop.org. For more information, email
publiclectures@iop.org.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Banker to the Poor: Lifting Millions Out of Poverty through Social
Business
Speaker: Professor Muhammad Yunus
Recorded: Monday 20 May, approx. 97 minutes
Progressive Capitalism
Speaker: Lord Sainsbury
Recorded: Monday 20 May, approx. 86 minutes
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and
Business
Speakers: Jared Cohen, Eric Schmidt
Recorded: Thursday 23 May, approx. 83 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Kanupriya Kejriwal
I am doing my Master's in Law (LL.M.)
at LSE. I hold my bachelor’s law
degree from Mumbai, India. I plan to
work in the field of family law
after graduation.
Apart from law, I am passionate
about my country, cricket and
Bollywood. I love reading fictional
novels and watching numerous
television shows.
Have you found it difficult to
adapt to life in London?
I come from Mumbai, India where
winter means about 25 degrees
celsius, so when I arrived in London
in October I suffered from a weather
shock and was unable to adapt for
about two months, essentially the
whole of the Michaelmas term. There
were so many times when I packed my
bags and thought this is it, I have
to go back to India!
But in those 'dark' days, I kept
telling myself that if I go back, I
will be leaving behind LSE, which is
an opportunity of a lifetime. I knew
that if I left once, I would never
gather the courage to come back and
finish what I started.
So I stayed. I spoke to a few
professors and staff members at LSE
and they gave me the confidence to
stay. I guess you need to tell
yourself to not cuddle up in the
comfort of your room with the heater
and skype with family and friends
back home all day. You need to push
yourself and remember what you are
here for.
And now, I love it. There is so
much to see and do in London and it
all needs to be covered within this
year. If I had quit, I would have
missed out on so much. London is
beautiful, if you are not freezing
to death, it is really one of the
best places in the world.
What was your best subject at
school and have you noticed any
differences in attitude to education
between India and the UK?
I enjoyed English literature in
school, there’s just something about
studying Shakespeare. I also liked
history, especially studying about
the Indian freedom struggle against
the British. Indian freedom fighters
are my true heroes and role models.
It is inspiring to read about men
like Gandhi (lawyer himself) and
Bhagat Singh who laid down their
lives to defend their country from
foreign invasion.
I don’t see any glaring
differences in attitude to education
between India and the UK. The Indian
laws, to a large extent, have been
adopted from the English laws and
therefore there is a tonne of
similarity in the syllabus. The only
major difference is that at LSE you
are compelled to be critical about
any piece of writing that you read,
you develop analytical skills which
are pertinent for a lawyer. On the
other hand the Indian education
system is more about reading and
quoting from the text without any
critical analysis.
The attitude of the students is
more or less the same, we fear
examinations and deadlines back at
home and everyone here fears them as
well.
What three items would you
rush to save from a fire?
Just the other day, there was a
mock fire drill at my accommodation
and, as I was unaware of it being
'mock', I grabbed my passport, cell
phone and wallet. The only thing
going through my mind was 'Oh God I
cannot afford to let my passport
burn, I have a trip to Paris coming
up!'
Have you ever broken a bone?
No thankfully I haven’t.
What is the last film you saw
at the cinema?
I absolutely love watching
movies, it’s my favourite thing to
do and I pride myself on being quite
the film critic. If not a lawyer,
that would have definitely been my
backup career.
I recently saw I Give it a
Year and This is 40 at
the cinema. They are both mindless
rom-coms and were a good break from
the endless essay writing at the LSE
Library. I especially liked the Brit
comedy, I Give it a Year, as
it is different from a typical
Hollywood ‘love story’. Also nothing
beats watching London look as
beautiful as ever on screen.
Can you cook? What is your
signature dish in the kitchen?
Before I came to London I did not
even know how to make a cup of
coffee. Soon I realised that if I
eat at a restaurant every day, I’ll
easily put on 100 pounds by the end
of the year.
After many 'incidents' of
bleeding hands while chopping onions
and burning fingers whilst in the
kitchen, I’ve finally learnt to make
amazing mushroom omelettes. |
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