Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, outlined his vision for tackling world poverty while speaking at the LSE on Tuesday 24th January.
Class sizes still exceeding maximum limit
Official LSE figures reveal 14.2 per cent of undergraduate classes currently exceed the official fifteen-student-per-class recommendation. This represents 223 out of 1574 total undergraduate classes.
Questions raised over LSE links with Technion
This week, Lois Clifton, LSE Students’ Union Environment and Ethics Officer, chaired a meeting addressing the issue of the LSE’s collaborative role in the project. The aim of the meeting was to decide whether action should be taken to boycott the scheme.
Monti on money matters
Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister, gave a public lecture at the LSE on the 18th January after a meeting with the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
Complaints filed over Muhammad cartoons
On 14th January, members of the LSE’s Students’ Union Atheist, Secularist and Humanist (ASH) Society began posting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a sign of solidarity with the Atheist Humanist Secularist group at the University College of London (UCL).
Antisemitic drinking game leads to brawl
LSE students are facing disciplinary action after participating in a Nazi-themed drinking game during the Athletics Union’s ski trip, held at a French mountain-side resort in December 2011.
Editorial
It has come to light this week that, on the LSE Athletics Union’s ski trip to Val d’Isere, a small group of LSE students were involved in the deplorable activity of playing a Nazi-themed drinking game. A Jewish member of the group subjected to this behaviour and was the victim of a tirade of antisemitic abuse which led to a scuffle in which his nose was broken.
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LSE Statement These are disturbing allegations relating to events which took place on a foreign trip organised by the Students’ Union. Both the SU and LSE are investigating these events and are prepared to take disciplinary action if the allegations are shown to be true. Students must abide by clear standards of behaviour set by…
Woolf Report critical of LSE’s links with Libya
In the Woolf Report published at 4:00pm on the 30th November 2011, Lord Woolf is highly critical of the LSE’s governing Council and the School’s lack of scrutiny into the sources of its donations.In his “damning” report, Lord Woolf has raised serious concerns over the School’s decision to accept a controversial £1.5 million donation from…
Foreboding ahead of impending Woolf Report release
The inquiry by Lord Woolf, the retired Lord Chief Justice, on the London School of Economics’ decision to accept the £1.5 million donation by the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation has been completed and will be officially reviewed by the LSE Council in the coming week. Its public release has been delayed until the…