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19 March 2014 |
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Panorama, North Korea and the BBC
Following the findings of the BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee on
the making of 'Panorama: North Korea Undercover' and the apology sent to
LSE by the BBC Executive, the School's Director, Professor Craig
Calhoun, said “LSE welcomes the finding of the Editorial Standards
Committee and the letter of apology issued to the School by the BBC
Executive. The committee highlighted a number of breaches in BBC
guidelines in the making of this programme, for which the Executive has
apologised.
LSE would like to confirm its strong support for the production of
programmes in the public interest and for journalists working to
highlight important issues in dangerous parts of the world."
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Breaking radio silence: the value of communication in public services
Mobile broadband is playing an increasing role in the provision of
public services. An LSE report written ahead of the auction of the
700MHz spectrum in the UK and other European countries has found that
reserving a portion of the mobile broadband spectrum exclusively for
emergency services could potentially lead to an improvement in public
safety. The socio-economic benefits of reserving spectrum are estimated
to have a monetary value of €34 billion, far outweighing the opportunity
cost of a one-off sale to commercial operators (estimated to be around
€6 billion).
Dr Alexander Grous of LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance assessed the
benefits of mission critical mobile broadband for public safety, looking
at aspects such as increased efficiency and socioeconomic value. The
report was commissioned by the TCCA, a forum for representing users,
manufacturers, application providers, integrators, operators, test
houses and telecom agencies interested in TETRA and other critical
communications technologies such as 4G LTE.
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 Notices
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National Student Survey 2014: a message from the Pro-Director
Dear final year undergraduate students,
I should like to thank all of those who have taken the time to complete this
survey. Your views are very important to the School. The response rate is
currently 41 per cent. If you have not already done so, please do try to
find the time to complete the survey
before it closes on Wednesday 30 April.
It does not take long to complete and is an opportunity for you tell us what
you liked, and did not like, about your learning experience during your time
at LSE. Your response will be anonymous and the results of the survey will
be made available publicly via Unistats.
I urge you to participate, as this feedback is very important to us. We use
it to make improvements to the teaching and learning at LSE.
Many thanks,
Professor Paul Kelly
Pro-Director (Teaching and Learning)
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LSE Votes 2014: European Parliament election
Ahead of this May's elections for the European Parliament, LSESU's
European Society has launched a handy website with everything anyone
wanting to cast their vote needs to know. The website is completely
neutral and just concisely explains everything people need to know about
voting in the election, with links to the websites of the Electoral
Commission, the voting sections of London borough councils and EU
delegation embassies in London. So if you're planning to vote, take a
look here.
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Major IT upgrade affecting SITS and LFY, 10-14 April
Every year, IMT is required to upgrade our Student Information System
(SITS). The latest upgrade will happen just before the Easter break. It is
scheduled to take place over several days and some of the work will take
place during normal working hours. IMT apologises for the inconvenience this
will cause but unfortunately it is unavoidable in this instance.
While we are upgrading, you will not be able to access the Student
Information System (SITS) or LSE For You (LFY), plus several other
applications. Work will start in the evening of Thursday 10 April at 6pm
and will last until the morning of Monday 14 April. The greatest
impact will be on Friday 11 April when neither SITS nor LFY will be
available throughout the working day.
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LSE Water Brigade's thrift sale
The LSE Water Brigade will be following up on last week's collection for our
thrift sale tomorrow - Thursday 20 March. Come along and grab a bargain
whilst contributing to a great cause on the first floor of the Saw Swee Hock
Student Centre 10am-6pm.
They would like to thank everyone who has already supported their
fundraising efforts, and encourage you all to come along to the sale
tomorrow.
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Cycle4Schooling 2014
Cycle4Schooling 2014 is run by the Al-Madad Foundation - a UK-based charity
committed to the promotion of literacy and education for disadvantaged
children, with excellent initiatives currently underway in Syria. On
Saturday 17 May people will be cycling from London to Oxford to help
raise vital funds for essential education projects undertaken by the
Foundation in Aleppo, Syria which will make a real difference to
disadvantaged children who are currently missing out on an education.
It's open to all levels, so whether a humble beginner or an avid cyclist,
there's room for everyone on this challenge! Register
here.
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Special exam preparation sessions over easter break
LSE’s Teaching and Learning Centre will be running special exam preparation
events over the term break, covering revision strategies and preparation for
both quantitative and qualitative exams.
Find out more and book places at
Learning and personal development events.
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Final call for applications to LSE GROUPS
Undergraduates, don’t miss out on a fantastic opportunity to participate in
an original research project. Working in small interdisciplinary groups over
a two week period at the end of Summer Term, you will identify a research
question, carry out fieldwork, write up findings and present a conference
paper.
Find out more, watch a ‘graffiti wall’ film featuring last year’s students
and complete the application form at
LSE GROUPS
But hurry: applications close at midnight on Thursday 20 March.
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Honorary Fellowship nominations
Nominations for an Honorary Fellowship of the School are invited. The
criteria are as follows:
The LSE Court may elect as an Honorary Fellow any individual who has made an
outstanding contribution to the School, over the course of a number of
years, beyond that which might reasonably be expected.
Honorary Fellowship nominees are expected to have a direct link with LSE
either as a member of the School, or as someone who has made an outstanding
contribution to the School.
This is an early notification - the deadline for nominations for
consideration in Michaelmas term 2014-15 is Friday 11 July.
Full details, and a Nomination Form, can be found
here.
If you have any queries contact Joan Poole at
j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk or on extension
7825.
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Call for submissions for LSE Perspectives
Taken some artistic photos of London? Do you have some impressive
holiday snaps or pictures from abroad that you’d like to share? Send them to
LSE Perspectives and your photos could be displayed in the next online
gallery which will go live on Tuesday 1 April, so get inspired and
send your snaps to
lseperspectives@lse.ac.uk
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Check out previous galleries
here.
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More for less
Baranis is a chic Provencal bar and restaurant situated on Chancery
Lane. As well as good food and drink, it is also home to the UK’s only
indoor petanque court!
Baranis’ award-winning house beef burger with chips and homemade
barbecue sauce and a soft drink is currently available to LSE staff and
students for only £6. Just show staff your LSE id in the restaurant or
mention you are part of LSE when booking, it's available Tuesday to
Friday from midday onwards. More
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Sustainability and textile recycling
This week sees the arrival of textile recycling on the LSE campus. The new
TRAID bins will be located on the first floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student
Centre, allowing students and staff to donate unwanted items of clothing and
fabric. Textile recycling bins are already available at most LSE halls of
residence.
Across the UK, TRAID re-sells 11,000 items of clothing a week in their
stores, and prevents around 3,000 tonnes of textiles from going to landfill
each year. TRAID also hosts a number of free events throughout the year on
the ethics and economics of fashion and the textile supply chain.
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 What's
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'Justice Rising: moving intersectionally in the age of
post-everything' - on Wednesday 26 March at 6.30pm in the Old
Theatre, Old Building with Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is currently professor of law at UCLA and Columbia. She
has written in the areas of civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and
race, racism and the law. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review,
National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and
Southern California Law Review. A founding coordinator of the Critical
Race Theory workshop; co-editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents
That Shaped the Movement. Crenshaw has lectured nationally and
internationally on race matters, addressing audiences throughout Europe,
Africa, and South America.
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'The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism' - on Wednesday 02 April
at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor David Harvey and
Dr Murray Low
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. Leading Marxist
thinker Professor David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of
capitalism – its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means
of investing it.
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'Freedom in Forgiveness' - on Thursday 3 April at 6.30pm in
the New Theatre, East Building with Amanda Lindhout
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through
issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales.
At the age of nineteen, she began to travel the globe. Aspiring to
understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through
Latin America, Laos, In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a
fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she
travelled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day,
she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.
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'War: what is it good for?' - on Thursday 10 April at 6.30pm
in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House with Professor Ian Morris and
Professor Christopher Coker
If you had been born 20,000 years ago, you would have faced a 1 in 10 or
even 1 in 5 chance of dying violently. But in the century since 1914—despite
its two world wars, atomic bombs, and multiple genocides—that risk has
fallen to barely 1 in 100. Why? The answer is uncomfortable: despite all its
horrors, over the long run war itself has made the world a safer and richer
place, because war alone has proved able to create larger societies that
pacify themselves internally.
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'Flash Boys: cracking the money code' - on Monday 28 April at
6.30pm with Michael Lewis
International bestseller Michael Lewis returns to the financial world with a
ringside seat to the biggest new story in years prepares to hit Wall Street.
Currently top-secret, the story is big, important, and involves Wall Street,
a cast of misfits and oddballs doing things with stupefying amounts of
money...He will speak about his new book in conversation with John
Lanchester. The event's location will be confirmed to ticketholders.
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'Egypt's Revolution: what's in it for minority rights?' - on
Thursday 20 March at 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
with Moataz El Fegiery, Mariz Tadros and Dr Katerina Dalacoura
Since 2011, Egypt has been struggling to achieve its revolutionary goals
of freedom and social justice and this has been particularly visible in the
struggle for political and civil rights. In Egypt, freedom of religion has
become a central issue and reflects the disenchantment felt by many facing
recurrent patterns of discrimination. Today the debate continues beyond the
ratification of the new constitution by referendum and poses the question of
what is the future for minority rights in Egypt. In this event, different
actors concerned by the issue will come together to present their view and
discuss the status of freedom of religion today in Egypt.
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Social Protection Actions within the IPA Programme - on
Thursday 27 March at 6:30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
with Natalia Dianiskova, Selma Kazic, Miodrag Dragisic and Vassilis
Monastiriotis
The EU’s Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) is a catalyst for
reforms and improvement of the overall conditions in the enlargement
countries, playing a key role on their journey to EU membership. Guest
speakers from the EU, UNDP and UNICEF will showcase IPA funded projects in
the Western Balkans, discussing their objectives and results. Ample space
will be given to discussion. The panel debate, supported by DG Enlargement,
is part of a two-day academic conference of the LSEE Research Network on
South Eastern Europe. The debate will be followed by a wine reception.
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Book your place
here.
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‘Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: some lessons from
modern Indian history’ – on Thursday 3 April at 6.30pm in the Sheikh
Zayed Theatre with Professor Partha Chatterjee
This lecture deals with four strands of trans-regional political movement in
India’s 19th and 20th century anti-colonial history: Islamic jihad,
nationalism, communism and those who deplored the narrow self-aggrandizement
of nationalism and pleaded for an opening to world humanity. All of these
strands, with their possibilities and limits, continue to be vibrant today.
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LSE Africa Summit - on Thursday 3 April - Saturday 5 April in
the Shreikh Zayed Theatre with the President of the Republic of Ghana,
His Excellency John D. Mahama
The LSE Africa Summit is a forum in which issues facing the African
continent can be examined with an entrepreneurial view by a community of
leaders, businessmen, academics and civil leaders. Topics to be
considered include entrepreneurship, agriculture, innovation, and
finance.
The President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John D. Mahama is
the Summit's keynote speaker, and will be delivering his speech on
Saturday 5 April. More
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 60
second interview
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with..... Andy Farrell
Wife, four children, one grandson, one dog, two cats. Turned down an offer from LSE in 1974 and studied Economics at Cambridge. Joined LSE in 2003 after 22 years at Xerox including two years commuting to work in Moscow. Overweight, high IQ, low EQ, eat too much, don't drink, drive too fast. Live amongst the champagne socialists of Muswell Hill. Can be very direct sometimes: Asperger's trait. Love LSE.
What advice would you give to new students at LSE?
168 hours in a week: 56 for LSE related work, 56 for sport, fun, culture, chill out, 56 for sleep. I should, of course, take my own advice. You learn most from people who don't agree with you.
What is the longest meeting you have ever attended at the School?
Probably a Council away day of over 12 hours. Multi day meetings were quite common at Xerox. Some meetings are a waste of time: others are great collaborative work.
What would you do if you were Mayor of London for the day?
Ask a woman to take charge: us men have had more than our fair share in charge. If I could be Chancellor of Exchequer, I'd deal with the scandal of billions wasted on ineffective demand side measures on housing, i.e., housing benefit, and redirect it to investment in affordable housing.
Can you recall the first record you ever bought and/or the album you played endlessly?
I "borrowed" a lot of my older brother's records. Dire Straits "Alchemy" and non-subtle music like Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell" played too much when I used to drive (too fast) 25,000 miles a year. Mostly drive for pleasure now: a Brummy inheritance.
What is your opinion of social networking sites?
Stopped using Facebook after being stalked by my mother. Follow @AndrewXFarrell to read my drivel on Twitter. It has totally changed my relationship with the SU for the better.
What has been the greatest co-incidence you have experienced so far?
Discovering that Howard Davies and I had both lived in the same road in Oxford though his house was much bigger than mine. And that our own former Chairman of Governors, Lord Grabiner is to be next Master at Clare College, where I studied economics all those years ago.
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