News about LSE issues and events.
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.
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…
“Let’s ask Congolese experts what there should be a focus on instead of imposing our own ideas.”
On 11 December 2020 the Justice for LSE Cleaners Campaign organised an online day of action and called upon supporters to send out a pre-formed email to demand greater safety for staff. This email follows another sent to LSE Chief…
