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Women Leaders of Tomorrow (WLT) was founded in 2012 with the aim to increase gender equality in management roles, in all industries. The society is now seeking to diversify the opportunities it provides to it’s members and is investing in various types of activities.

President Justine Hung, hopes the society will continue to develop.

“It’s not longer solely about cooperate networking anymore but is seeking to reach into volunteering and helping their members with new skills. Though our #RedLips campaign started 3 years ago, we want to explore different communities. We wanted to do a fashion show to keep up public profile. As we are a career society, we thought to do a business fashion show.”

This is also a personal matter as fashion in business is something that Justine has struggled with herself.

“I still get confused as to the difference between business casual and business formal. Business casual or smart casual? We want to make things clearer for members and to have some fun!”

Justine has worked closely with her Vice President, Alyssa Alahakone, in preparing for the event such as getting lighting and sourcing a DJ. Having been fortunate to receive £700 from the Annual Fund, the committee has created each look themselves, making this fashion show solely their vision throughout. There shall be five categories, with the Dance Society performing in the middle.

One of the most impressive aspects of the fashion show, is that the society has managed to source a phenomenon partner, Charlotte Tilbury, which certainly adds professional credibility to the society. Having visited the store three times trying to arrange a pitch meeting, Justine was finally able to meet with the store manager. Her perseverance truly paid off as he has assigned the society make-up artists as well as photo booths, where the make-up artists can teach others application methods.

When asked about who was her personal go to style icon, Justine responded with British actress, model and activist, Emma Watson.

“She is a good balance between femininity and masculinity. In the media femininity is marketed as very girly but it comes with elegance, poise and women can be anything.”

Looking to the future, this week’s fashion show shall be used to test the waters and see whether there is appetite for more. With a free cocktail and free entry to Saucy included in the ticket, it’s not one to miss.

Check out their promo video below:

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Get your ticket for the fashion show.

Join the society or stay up to date with WLT’s plans via their Facebook page.

We’ve been preparing to campaign on the current changes to Higher Education being pushed through by the UK Government. 

The most important among these is the Teaching Excellence Framework, or TEF, which ranks universities’ educational quality as either gold, silver or bronze. What’s more, TEF allows all universities to increase their fees every year, without ensuring that they invest this extra money — or any additional money— into improving the teaching we receive in the classroom. This means that although the government claims that TEF is in the interests of students, we are the ones expected to fund this new proposal.

That means as of 2017, first year undergraduates will pay £9250 instead of £9000. With TEF, this fee is set to increase again.
While we agree that teaching quality is important, TEF uses metrics totally unrelated to teaching in order to rank universities’ education, like student satisfaction and employment rates. Teaching Excellence at LSE will be determined through a combination of our National Student Satisfaction rates (currently among the lowest in the country); the number of students employed six months after graduation, and non-continuation rates (i.e. drop-out rates).
According to this criteria, LSE’s teaching quality is currently set to be ranked bronze, and placed 81st out of 120 Schools in the UK—i.e., in the bottom third for teaching quality in the whole of the UK. By contrast, the top ranking universities are likely to be Loughbourough, De Montford and Aston universities, who will likely receive a mark of ‘gold’ quality education.

Although based on metrics that have nothing to do with teaching, there is no doubt that a bronze ranking will negatively affect the School’s reputation. This could then have a negative impact on the perceived value of current, past and future students’ LSE degrees.

It is clear: TEF is bad news for LSE students, and Higher Education in general. It does nothing to actively promote higher quality education through better investments in our teachers; it only ensures that we will pay more year on year, all the while branding the LSE and the education we receive here as third rate.
We are spending this week campaigning outside the Library and on Sheffield Street to create room for debate around 'Teaching Excellence.’ Stop by between 11am and 2pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to share your take on the quality of our education, and what increased fees for a devalued degree means for your future.

For more information, visit the LSESU website

Your Education Officer

Jasmina Bidé

On Tuesday evening, November 8th, LSE students were invited to LSESU’s USA Election Night event where we all gathered in the SU’s lowest floor to watch, with awe, as Donald Trump won the Presidential Election. While some of us watched, others had no idea. They went to bed, they woke up, and the world had changed.

While LSE has returned to normal in many ways, last week your responses to our Trump Wall show how deep the hurt goes

At the risk of sounding exaggerative, we quote Winston Churchill’s eulogy for King George VI, as his words take on an entirely new and sorrowful meaning:
“There struck a deep and solemn note in our lives which, as it resounded far and wide, stilled the clatter and traffic of twenty [first] century life in many lands, and made countless millions of human beings pause and look around them. A new sense of values took, for the time being, possession of human minds, and mortal existence presented itself to so many at the same moment…”

When the United States elected an explicitly bigoted, inexperienced, dishonest, and arrogant man as the “leader of the free world” …the “free world” needed to take a second look at itself. The frustration is with the man and not the party he represents. However, our frustrations with the system in which America now depends on to elect its presidents, our frustrations with the candidates it could have, or should, have chosen, are not the subject of this post. While all of those things are worthy of debate and conversation, we have to look at the bigger picture here at LSE and around the world.

How is this reflecting on the condition of fair representation in the United States, fair representation being, arguably, one of the most essential pillars of democracy? Further yet, how does this reflect on the state of democracy around the world? Most importantly, what will it mean for the future? And lastly, how do we react to it here at LSE?

I really, truly wish I had an unequivocal answer for these questions. But because I do not, I want us to look instead towards instilling a sense of safety here at LSE for Americans, and anyone else, that feels fear at expressing themselves, fear of going home, or fear of the now questionable future. His behaviour is not valid here. It will never be validated here: It is unacceptable to make women feel like they are not equivalent to men. It is unacceptable to make them feel like trophies. It is unacceptable to discriminate against any kind of minority, whether based on nationality, gender, race, ethnicity, or religion. LSE will continue to move forward, but the Trump Wall with all your responses remains, now found next to the ARC, for students of all background to share how they feel about Donald Trump becoming President of the United States, without discriminating against anyone. Please feel free to pass by and add your thoughts on a sticky note. The idea is to have a safe space to share your thoughts.

For many this is a sensitive subject. For many this is not a joking matter; it is a reality. An environment of hatred is undeniably flourishing in the United States right now, but it will not be encouraged here. While, of course, it “is not the end of the world”, we must be respectful of those mourning or fearful (take one look at the officials Trump is selecting for his cabinet).

I wanted to write this for those of you who feel alone and scared. I have done my “mourning.” I typed out explanations and yelled and cried and complained, but I am ready to work towards a future I have faith can get better. Many of us in politics started off as idealists, so I hope we can face this reality without caving to a politics of cynicism, and through the faith and hope that hard work will lead to a better future. I encourage us all to rally, to get back up, to practice compromise in politics and not in values, and to fight harder for those things we know our democracies are capable of.

Sincerely, 

Your Postgraduate Officer

Sarah Castellanos