Talk:London School of Economics
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I removed the link to the RAE results because it gives an error when clicked on. The page at that URL is (apparently) a script which expects POST data to tell it which institution to display the results for. --rbrwr
I moved this from "London School of Economics and Political Science" to conform to the common names policy.--Jiang 05:56, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
"all of whom won Nobel Prizes - despite acquiring a reputation for political extremism among the student body."
Does this mean that every one of the Nobelists listed earlier in that sentence had a reputation for political extremism among the student body, or just that the latter-named of them did, or what? It seems to be that if the LSE has produced a lot of Nobelists, ALL of whom have gained that reputation, than the student body is rather fickle or easily impressed. And what is with the word "despite" here? The Nobel Prize committee cares what the students of LSE think, yet despite this, blah blah blah? Or the Nobel Prize committee doesn't care, in which acse some other conjunction would be better? --Christofurio 04:12, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
If we're listing fictional alumni here, should we also include Jim Hacker? Not that I'm convinced that listing fictional alumni is a good thing...--rbrwr± 08:56, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hacker is a much more valid inclusion in my opinion. His LSE background was pretty front-and-centre in the show, often being but of jokes by the Oxford and Cambridge-educated civil servants. Yes Minister is the main way that I'd heard of the LSE.--Cinephobia 05:03, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
LSE degrees differ from many other university degrees in that the LSE requires its students to specialise in their chosen field of study, even at the undergraduate level, rather than pursue a more wide-ranging curriculum.
Dare I ask if this was written by an American? Actually, all of the universities in the UK follow this principle - you always apply to study something, never just to study.
Except in Scotland, where your first year is a general course of study. But then Scottish undergraduate degrees take four years to complete instead of the standard three.
I think it's worth noting the LSE in political drama and comedy, and so I have placed a section at the end as a light 'and finally...'.