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Re: Removal of Post-Study Work Visa would be “more damaging” than fee rise

payday loans — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:56:14 -0000

The education in UK is no doubt progressive and does add to the knowledge held by an individual. But the statement they want only the best ones.It seems as if mercy is done to the people to whm they provided education.They have charged double the fees.Half of the citizens are not keen to work on weekends.The contribution is more compared to the the Britishers who support the economy. If their workforce was hardworking then others would not have got the opportunity.

Re: One and a half years opening jars

Mara Gonzalez — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:19:15 -0000

Alex Horne isdef one of the best comedians in London. I read an article on WUWO Magazine about his new comedy act "Seven years in a bathroom" and laughed my a** off. i suggest all fans should read it.... http://www.whatsupwhatson.com/...

Re: Student Higher Education manifesto underway

loans no credit check — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:16:19 -0000

The current system of allowing students to start university immediately after school or to take a gap year works best for everyone – forcing all students into the same avenue will disadvantage a great many of them, for varying reasons, and for little or no real benefit. For a lot of young people, taking a break after school would make it much harder for them to get back into studying after a year of not, whereas the continuity from school into university gives a much easier transition. For students wanting to take long courses, this will put them a year further behind before they eventually qualify, which will put them under even greater financial pressure.

Re: Porn: a taboo?

Adam — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:13:39 -0000

Porn is run by a mafia-like exploitative bunch. The girls in porn are all smoking and doing drugs off-the-set. It's a human meat-factory where girls are forced into uncomfortable sex(esp. anal). Teenage boys lap up this junk and it shapes their brains.

Re: Free schools or freedom for schools?

Iftikhar Ahmad — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:07:19 -0000

Children should be educated acording to the wishes of the parents. This right was given to British parents by the Education Act of 1944. This is the main reason why we have thousands of faith schools. Muslims are recent arrivals in Uk. They are British citizen and pay all sorts of taxes. They have the right to educate their children according to their own wishes.

The whole world belongs to Muslims. A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not want to become notoriously monolingual Brit. He/she must be well versed in standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. At the same time he/she must be well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with his/her cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. A child who has English as a second language is seen as having a special need – not as having a skill to be lauded from the rooftops. Bilingual children think in different way. Language has a profound effect in shaping the ways people think and act. State schools are slaughter houses and are not suitable for bilingual Muslim children. Muslim children in the UK may lose out when they join reception classes because the school’s values and language reflect those of the dominant native culture, rather than those of their. Almost all recent research literature agrees that if you want children whose home language is not English to excel in English –medium schools, it is important to nurture and acknowledge that first language along side their English development. Cultivating bilingualism could and should promote pupil’s linguistic development. Muslim children need bilingual Muslim teachers as role models.

The number of state-funded Muslim and Jewish schools is too small to form a meaningful group – however, the 12 state-funded Muslim schools in England are collectively more reflective of their community, with 67% of primaries and 60% of secondaries having more than the local authority average of free school meal pupils. Even in private fees paying Muslim schools, majority of Muslim children come from poor families. Only 5% Muslim children attend Muslim schools while 95% keep on attending state schools where they are being mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers. There are hundreds of stata and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be opted out as Muslim Academies.
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Re: More than a whistle-blower?

Debra — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:12:42 -0000

What criminal charges? Does this book claim there are criminal charges against Assange? Hmm, that's interesting... I have read articles elsewhere in which Beckett tries to hammer home the message that Wikileaks is somehow operating outside the law. And I mean REALLY tries hard to push that message. It's nonsense of course because Wikileaks receives leaks from anonymous sources which it then publishes, just as mainstream journalists do all the time. I think this is one of those occasions when you have to look at what the agenda of the author might be. Beckett's co-author is James Ball, the protege of David Leigh of the Guardian who published the encryption key to the full set of unredacted State Dept cables and thus is ultimately responsible for their release. Ah yes... hmm... that would explain why Beckett and his co-author are so keen to distance themselves and paint Wikileaks and Julian Assange as being outside the law...

Re: Pakistani Flash Mob on Houghton Street

k_raza — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:44:08 -0000

Pakistani music was played all week-long monday - friday, just to correct you milan.

Re: Pakistani Flash Mob on Houghton Street

Milan Mehta — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:59:23 -0000

this was in the printed version too: "Members of the society busted a choreographed move to funky Pakistani Music "
i dont think they used pakistani music at all...
research or ask someone before you write an article you have no clue about

Re: Pakistani Flash Mob on Houghton Street

aasd asd — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:56:01 -0000

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Re: Rock star: the greatest but very different

Claude Johnson — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:47:08 -0000

If i could go back stage with Korey Cooper (Skillet) or Amy Lee (Evanescence) than that would be amazing!!!!

Re: Review: Lydia Davis’s new translation of Madame Bovary

judex — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:38:02 -0000

I have looked at both and am less impressed by Davies from the chapters that I read. What is worst is the fact that she seems to be an active participant in selling us the idea that this book is the best translation.,,even before we read it! However, I plan to read it again with Mauldon's and the French original. As readers, we need silence and demonstration and perhaps modesty, not hype.

Re: LSE Diary – linguistic trip to Madrid

Katharine Rose — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:10:03 -0000

Our family(with 3 teens 14,17 and 20) had a lovely, informative and enjoyable tour with www.privatetoursinistanbul.com He was so knowledgeable(former art history professor) and really brought the art to life for our family. His special anecdotes and information made the enormity of the museum manageable, plus provided an excellent introduction to Spanish history.Afterwards, we had a stroll through some of the older neighborhoods and ended up in a typical local resteraunt for lunch. Later in our trip, when we went through the Picasso museum in Barcelona, my children were very interested in Picasso's interpretation of Velasquez's works-thanks to all they learned from Mr Satt. That is a great success to me!

Re: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

Sarah Morgan Wemyss — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:54:24 -0000

so good informasion

Re: Complaints filed over Muhammad cartoons

doodiepants — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:21:07 -0000

Are you serious? These are cartoons! How long will you bow. You are weak.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

swarrens — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:55:10 -0000

is it just me or can this HACK not spell or use English properly?

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

James Oliver Deckard — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:57:58 -0000

'Apart from the anti-semitic content via the total downgrade of the holocaust to a student election decision'
It's that what truly believe anti-Semitism is, then you are clearly deluded; Jason Wong's point in posting that bookburning photograph was clearly about censorship. You deliberately trying to misinterpret this or you really have no clue. I don't know which is worse.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

lenglim1 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:03:29 -0000

This again shows how undemocratic and unrepresentative the SU is. Despite all other very offensive comments Jason Wong made, I do agree that the Sabbs don't do much and are a waste of money. Lots of people think that but nobody had the guts to speak out loud, which is not surprising. See what happens when you openly campaign against the SU...

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

Katabasis — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:02:38 -0000

I truly despair for the current and future generations to come out of Universities in the UK when it is possible to make the utterly unfounded leap from Wong posting a picture of Nazi book burning (emphasising censorship) to a claim that he is cheapening Nazi crimes. Also, given LSE's persistent record of - as Harry's Place put it - provding and supporting a 'Marketplace of Offence' where it appears even easier to inadvertently "offend" someone than it is even to get a degree (or bump into the son of an arab dictator who donated plenty of money to the university), what students in their right mind would attend this institution in future? Frankly with the ongoing battles between Jewish students and Islamists on campus (with the atheists now inadvertently caught up and - in true LSE style - punished despite being the victims) LSE is getting exactly what it ordered. Now sit at the table and eat it.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

Jen_Izaakson — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:38:51 -0000

The point about the disqualification is not one ground purely in bureaucracy and regulations - not for me anyway. I'd want Wong out of the election even if the SU didn't have a policy on anti-semitism. The point as to why the Note he wrote was awful and the disqualification correct is a political question. What the picture did was attempt to equate the actions of the Nazis (represented by the photo of book burning, but we're aware of the real reason Nazis are historically remembered and it's not just for throwing some texts on a bonfire - but murdering 6 million people), the actual Nazis, with the actions of a Students' Union not allowing him to campaign for 48 hours.

As far as I'm aware, much as I don't support a Trustee Board in any conception, it isn't the Third fucking Reich. As far as I'm aware, the Returning Officer, doesn't goose-step. So, the problem with Wong's photo and post, was the watering down down of Nazi crimes and reducing them, through comparison, to being as banal and minuscule as getting banned from campaigning in a sodding SU election, for 48 hours.

Apart from the anti-semitic content via the total downgrade of the holocaust to a student election decision, Wong should get his own office at the Daily Mail just for galling use of hyperbole.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

jay stoll — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:32:12 -0000

None of you have an idea what Nazism means to certain people. The fact the other comments on this piece just see it as a "historic photograph" or an acceptable metaphor for how he was treated prior is so telling. Fucking educate yourselves. Clowns

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

James FARRELL — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:49:02 -0000

This is pretty pathetic. The whole notion that the post was anti-Semitic and that Jason should be banned from the election because he included a historic photograph in the post is complete nonsense. Anybody with a bit of common sense would be able to infer that the purpose of the post was to convey the message of how biased the election committee and their rules are; definitely not to “glorify Nazism” as some of these twelve year olds seem to think.

And I’d really like to ask Alec Webley to explain how removing the Sabbs is illegal under the Charities Act.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

necromancer_nick — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:31:12 -0000

I must say that while I have no sympathy for Jason, who clearly doesn't have the ability to be a Trustee (his proposals are utterly useless) and has a problem of coming up with one liners that are sexist and classist, I agree that the reasoning used to disqualify Jason is clearly flawed. When he associated the actions of the committee with the book burning, he clearly didn't think their actions as trivial, so I can hardly see how the association could be seen as trivializing the Holocaust or glorifying Nazism. Just because the SU thinks a 48 hours ban is trivial doesn't mean it is trivial to the one receiving the ban. Not that it matters anyway-I certainly don't think anyone in their right minds would ever vote for Jason. Good riddance.

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

James Oliver Deckard — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:30:26 -0000

'The statement on the Students’ Union’s website states that “the image likened the actions of the Union and the Returning Officer to book burning by Nazis in the 1930s. It was agreed that the image trivialised the holocaust, something contrary to the Union’s anti-Semitism policy.” ' Absolute nonsense. There is no 'trivialising' here - the image was clearly used to show where censorship leads. And of course it has led to a ban and of course calls for him to be thrown out of the School and no doubt turned into a non-Person. "It was agreed" Agreed by whom?

'Stills said, “on the question of the relevance of previous School disciplinaries on the eligibility of election candidates – all I could say is that it depends on a case by case basis.” ' In other words, we make it up as we go along.

'Sherelle Davids, Anti-Rascism Officer, is one of the many students who argued that this incident goes beyond student politics: “... Wong did not just glorify Nazism in the context of a candidate in an election but as a student at LSE. This should now be a matter for the school to deal with.” Proper creepy. I didn't see any 'glorification of Nazism' going on by Jason Won- in fact just the opposite - but I do see a lot of Orwellian DoubleSpeak coming from Sherelle davids and her ilk. I see weasel words like 'is one of the many students who argued ' and 'it was agreed'. Why don't these people just have a Show Trial and be done with it?

Re: Wong disqualified from Lent Term elections

Katabasis — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:10:25 -0000

The pretext for disqualifying Wong has to be amongst the flimsiest I have ever seen, even in student union politics - and that is saying something! How you get from him objecting to his effective censorship by posting a picture of Nazi book burning to him "glorifying nazism" or him being "anti-semitic" will probably count as one of the most collossally inept leaps of logic ever used to quash a candidate - and quash debate - at LSE. But what should us students expect from a students union that is willing to censor and threaten to eject its Atheist/Secularist society when it should be protecting them?

Re: David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture

simon gregson — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:24:52 -0000

If you are ever up here in Yorkshire you can sample the delights of the Yorkshire Wolds and all it has to offer. David Hockney created many of the artworks currently on display at the Royal Academy near Bridlington. Most of the sites that he frequented to paint the Yorkshire countryside can be found at www.yocc.co.uk