News from within LSE, plus coverage of domestic and international affairs.
Pictured left to right: Education officer Bali Birch-Lee, Jeremy Corbyn, Howard Beckett, Fee Strike Volunteers. An estimated 200-300 students attended last Wednesday’s Fee Strike rally at John Watkins Plaza. It featured a lineup of fifteen speakers, including ex-Labour leader Jeremy…
LSE will hold in-person graduation celebrations in summer 2021, the Students’ Union announced in a statement. The move reverses the School’s earlier plans to hold them digitally, which attracted significant controversy and which the SU had promised to fight against.…
In the latest student and director Q&A, LSE’s leadership team expressed their pride in all that has been achieved in the last year, the ongoing support from the university and its plans for the future.
LSE to provide an assessment support package to all students to ease pressure on the Summer Term assessment period
Rory Moore has been awarded a Points of Light award for outstanding service to the community by the Prime Minister and the United Nations
Academics from LSE and King’s College London (KCL) were criticised in the House of Commons after it emerged they had sent emails to MPs from fictitious constituents during the pandemic.
A petition lobbied at private accommodation provider urbanest, in light of recent rent strikes from an inter-collegiate group of students, has now seen wider attention, publicity, and an official response. Dan Lawes, speaking for the campaign, told The Beaver that…
LSE has agreed to scrap the £25 per week holding fee for those living in LSE student accommodation, according to the LSE Student Union. The fee was previously in place for those currently not able to return to LSE student…
Following the development of rent strikes in LSE-owned accommodation, student strikers’ attention has now turned to demanding accountability from private student accommodation providers in London. One petition, created by an intercollegiate student group living in housing provided by urbanest, reached…
LSE has become the latest UK university to cancel in-person graduation ceremonies, saying that the School “[does] not believe that large-scale campus events will be possible for the foreseeable future” in an email to 2021 graduands and 2020 graduates. In-person…
