Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, will give his first major public speech of the European Referendum campaign at LSE on Wednesday 11 May.
Congratulations to Hayat Mohamed, International History student, who has won the Future Civil Service Leader of the Year Award at the national TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards event last Friday.
LSE has maintained its position as the top university in London and third in the UK, according to the latest university rankings.
The Complete University Guide 2017 - the first university rankings of the year - rates 127 UK universities on a number of measures, including research quality, graduate prospects and student satisfaction. It is the fourth consecutive year the rankings have placed LSE in third overall, just behind Oxford and Cambridge.
In addition to the overall ranking, the School has been rated as the top institution in the country to study social policy. In total 10 LSE disciplines are ranked in the Complete University Guide’s subject top 10.
Dublin based practice Grafton Architects have been selected as the winners of the competition to design 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields/The Paul Marshall Building, the next major building project for the School.
The majority of the votes at the public exhibition were cast for Teams A and D, with less than 20 votes separating them (Grafton Architects were Team D).
A new LSE book offers an authoritative, evidence-based analysis of the impact government policies have had on inequality and on delivery of services such as health, education, adult social care, housing and employment since the 2008 recession.
New research from LSE shows a rise of more than 10 percentage points in the proportion of female candidates for some of May’s elections, but gains in elected representatives are likely to be more modest.
The Student Wellbeing Service hosted an event to celebrate and appreciate the achievements and hard work of the 18 LSE Peer Supporters during the 2015-16 academic year.
The Peer Support Scheme is in its fourth year, with peer supporters attached to nine LSE Halls of residences, as well as supporting students on campus. Peer Supporters worked through the year to support large numbers of LSE students, including many living in private accommodation.
"My first impression of LSE was being handed a ration card at the hall of residence." - Robert Weinberg, BSc Econ 1955
What was life like for LSE students in the 1950s-2000s? If you’re interested in LSE’s past then head to the Digital Library where you can listen to Tales from Houghton Street, LSE’s oral history podcast, or browse the full collection by interviewee or by subject. Want to find out how to make an oral history? Go behind the scenes with Clara Cook on the LSE History blog.
Educate, Agitate, Organise South Asia @ LSE’s Sonali Campion explores the life of LSE alumnus and social reformer Dr BR Ambedkar on the 125th anniversary of his birth.
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2016 Exam Procedures
We hope the preparations for your exams are going well.
It is important that you read the 2016 Exam Procedures for Candidates in order to prepare yourself fully for taking exams at LSE, which may be very different to previous exams that you have taken.
Permitted exam materials and other items you can take in to the exam room
Individual Exam Arrangements (IEAs) and Short Term Exam Arrangements (ST IEAs)
Problems e.g. late arrival; illness; exceptional circumstances
Please note all students taking exams at LSE are requiredto read the Exam Procedures for Candidates. In the event of you not complying with a process or requirement outlined within the Exam Procedures, we will be unable to accept ignorance of their contents as an explanation.
Most importantly, we are here to support you. If you have an issue which you think we can help you with, or if you have any questions after reading the Exam Procedures for Candidates, please visit the Student Services Centre reception desk which is open Monday-Friday 11am-4pm or e-mail exams@lse.ac.uk.
The Language Centre has an enhanced programme of short but sweet Arabic, French, German, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish courses available this Summer.
Courses run at various times throughout June - August and range from absolute beginner taster courses to more intensive options.
US Centre hosts voter registration drive for US citizens
The US Centre at LSE is hosting a voter registration drive for all American citizens in the LSE community.
With 6.3 million Americans living overseas, 220,000 of whom are based in the UK, Americans abroad are an important voting bloc. Absentee ballots have been key in deciding three major senate races in the past election. It is important that expatriates are aware of their right to vote absentee and are informed on how they can do so.
Find more information on our website, including information on why absentee voting is important and our guide on how to request a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) from the Federal Voting Assistance Program online.
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley is running skip fit lessons for all students and staff.
The next lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on Tuesday 10 May, Tuesday 17 May, Tuesday 31 May, Tuesday 7 June, Tuesday 21 June, and Tuesday 28 June. Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons are free.
This year, this opportunity will be extended to up to 125 students. The programme is open to students and young professionals between the ages of 18 and 28 years old, regardless of nationality, who are proficient in English and have obtained an undergraduate degree or its equivalent from an accredited college or university. To learn more about the application requirements, please click here.
The application is now available on the Schwarzman Scholars website and will close on 15 September 2016 for applicants from the United States and across the globe.
For applicants who hold passports from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao, regardless of where they attended university, the application can be found on the Tsinghua University website and must be submitted by 15 June 2016.
April’s edition of LSE Perspectives is now online.
This photo was taken by David Coles, LSE Volunteer Coordinator, LSE Careers: "A river is the foundation for any city and so are the bridges that cross it. This photo shows the Tiber running through Rome".
The McKinsey Global Institute has launched a global essay contest aimed at crowdsourcing solutions to one of Europe’s biggest political and economic conundrums: how to implement a pro-growth economic strategy that is both effective and that appeals to voters and policy-makers.
The winner of the essay contest will receive a prize of €60,000. A prize of €25,000 will be awarded to the best essay written by an author under the age of 30. A further €15,000 will be awarded to runners-up at the discretion of thepanel of judges, which is chaired by Pascal Lamy, a former European Trade Commissioner and ex-director general of the World Trade Organisation.
Submissions are due by 31 July 2016 and the awards will be presented at a dinner ceremony in Brussels in October.
There are over 200 additional study spaces in the Library compared with this time last year. But we know that the building will be still be very busy during the exam period so here are some of the other measures we are taking to help manage space in the Library during exams:
Booking spaces Study spaces are now available to book on the Ground and Second floors of the Library using this link. This enables you to plan some of your study time in the Library and has proved popular in previous years.
Taking long breaks Study space is in high demand during the exam period so please take all of your belongings with you and fully vacate the space you have been using when you are leaving the building, especially overnight. We will be using a warning card system to deal with belongings that are being used to reserve study spaces.
Food and drink Drinks with lids are allowed in the Library but please remember that no food is allowed beyond the turnstiles.
Library building developments As part of the LSE Library Space Development project, work is continuing on the first floor of the Library. This will result in a bigger and improved Course Collection with additional study spaces.
Library Survey results Thank you to those of you who completed the library survey that we ran during February and March. The results show that overall students are more satisfied with Library Services than when we last carried out the survey in 2014.
Endless Endeavours The Library’s summer exhibition, Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society, draws on our unique collections to mark the 150th anniversary of the presentation to Parliament of the first petition calling for women’s suffrage. The exhibition is open to all until 27 August 2016.
The Student Wellbeing Service will be running another Wellbeing Stall outside the LSE Library on Thursday 28 April from 10am-2.30pm.
Staff from the Disability and Wellbeing Service, Student's Union, Residential Services, Student Counselling will be joined by Peer Supporters, and will be asking people to think of ways of overcoming things that will affect their wellbeing during the exam period. Free 10 minute chair massages will also be available.
The stall will also promote the ‘Time to Change’ campaign that aims to end mental health discrimination.
The Library’s summer exhibition draws on its unique collections to mark the 150th anniversary of a petition to Parliament signed by 1,499 women calling for women’s suffrage.
The exhibition is open to all until 27 August 2016.
The inaugural LSE Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF), organised by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) will take place on Friday 13 May.
The forum is a unique opportunity to engage with Southeast Asia's most critical issues, network with renowned experts on the region and encourage student participation in high-level debates.
How does the space of a city influence democracy? Berna Turam, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University, explores how urban sites create new and creative politics, particularly in Turkey, where they challenge the binary view of Islamist-secularist conflict in both exceptional moments like the Gezi protests and everyday living.
If you have some news, an achievement, or an aspect of LSE life that you would like to share, we would love to hear from you - get in touch at communications.internal@lse.ac.uk or on ext 7582.
The next edition of Student News is on Wednesday 11 May. Articles for this should be emailed to us by Monday 9 May. Student News is emailed on Wednesdays, on a weekly basis during Michaelmas and Lent term and fortnightly during Summer term.
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