Undergraduate news
This year's Peston Lecture, given by Dr Richard Lipsey in the College's new Arts 2 building, is now available to watch online at http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c2b327b2-ae02-4fc8-8864-eaad647a44b6
The topic of the lecture is 'Policy Implications of Alternative Economic Paradigms: Some Surprises from Endogenous Technological Changes'.
Richard G. Lipsey, FRSC, OC, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, has held professorial posts at the London School of Economics and Essex University in England, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, as well as visiting professorships at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Manchester, and the University of British Columbia. He was Senior Economic Advisor, C.D. Howe Institute (1983-89) and Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1989-2002).
Post date: 27th March 2012
The School is pleased to announce that Queen Mary will be part of the Russell Group from August 2012. The Russell Group is a group of 20, soon to be 24, research-intensive universities in the UK, committed to maintaining the best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience, and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.
Professor Simon Gaskell, Principal of Queen Mary, said: “We are delighted to accept the invitation to join the Group."
Professor George Kapetanios, Head of the School of Economics and Finance, said: "We are particularly pleased about this as our RAE results and NSS results have been excellent, and being part of the Russell Group further solidifies our excellent standing in both the academic and business worlds."
Post date: 13th March 2012
This term has brought with it a variety of well-attended Careers events.
October boasted the QM Careers ‘Focus on Finance fortnight’, where a team from SEF won the ‘XING’ competition, and there were employer and alumni led events about working in risk, consultancy, financial planning and banking. Throughout the term there has been a high demand for Careers drop-in sessions, where students bring their queries for a short 1-2-1, reflecting how first years through to post-graduates are aware of the need to be securing relevant work experience and skills-building part-time work.
A highlight of the Careers events programme was the ‘Insight weeks and Internships forum’. At this, students who gained work experience last summer through family networks, speculative applications and the formal internship application channels shared their insights with others. This showed just how many ways there are to find work experience. Another great success was ‘Linked Up’, where nine-students each met 2 alumni working in finance for a 1-2-1, and learnt about the reality of working in different areas of finance.
On a personal note, I’ve been delighted to see some of the students who have used the Careers support succeed in gaining competitive insight weeks and internships at financial firms. I look forward in 2012 to seeing even more events and successes!
Post date: 1st February 2012
The National Students Survey (NSS) is a yearly survey directed at all final year students in all disciplines across all Universities in the UK. The survey includes 22 statements divided in 6 sections: teaching, assessment, support, organisation, personal development and learning resources.
The aim of the survey is to give students the opportunity of expressing their views about their learning experience at University. The NSS results are commonly used in setting league tables published by leading British newspapers.
The 2011 NSS results were very positive for the School of Economics and Finance. 93% of the students rated their overall learning experience as either good or very good. This result places the School in seventh position among all UK Economics Schools for students satisfaction. In London the School is ranked second behind Greenwich University and first among the research intensive Universities.
The 2012 NSS will open in January and will conclude by the end of April. Final year students can complete the survey at any time during this period and a response rate of at lest 50% is required for the results to be published. The School hopes to repeat the excellent result achieved in 2011 and invites all final year students to participate to the survey.
The online survey can be accessed from the NSS website at:
http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/
Post date: 1st February 2012
The computer lab in W307 now hosts 10 Bloomberg terminals for exclusive use by the School’s students. Bloomberg is one of the market leaders in providing business, economics and financial data to decision makers and the terminals give you access to the full Bloomberg set of financial and economics data.
In collaboration with Bloomberg, the School will organise a number of training sessions aimed at explaining the software’s functionalities to all students. One training session has already taken place in the first semester and more are planned for the new semester. Details of the training sessions will be circulated by email and posted on the School’s website.
Post date: 1st February 2012
Professor Martin Weale, prominent member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and Visiting Professor within the School has delivered two very interesting talks on the UK monetary policy and on quantitative easing to all our postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Students will have the opportunity of engaging again with Martin in the second semester when he will be moderating a students-led debate on the Euro crisis. More details of the event will be circulated soon. Keep checking your email!
Post date: 1st February 2012
Would you like to know what careers are available to graduates in Economics and Finance? Would you like to know what careers best fit your own skills? The School of Economics and Finance has created an online database that allows you to browse through a large number of careers available to graduates in economics and finance in industries such as banking, finance, law and the public sector. The database has been put together with the invaluable help of two current students: Shweta Upadhyaya and Igor Tkachuk!
The database is available at: http://www.econ.qmul.ac.uk/economics-careers
You can search the database by skills in order to identify the careers that best fit your own personal skills, or by industry according to the type of industry you would like to pursue your career in
Post date: 1st February 2012
If you would be interested in taking part, please contact Student Support Manager Agatha Jones on a.m.jones@qmul.ac.uk.
Post date: 20th January 2012
A study by Giulio Fella, Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary and Giovanni Gallipoli of the University of British Columbia has shown that increasing funding to make sure more students graduate from high school is more effective at reducing property crime than increasing prison sentences. Improving high school graduation rates boosts the future incomes, taxes and spending power of future graduates says the study, Education and Crime over the Life Cycle. The results of the study caught the attention of the Canadian press and the main results fo the research and an interview with the authors was reported in the Montreal Gazette.
Post date: 10th January 2012
The School of Economics and Finance is pleased to welcome our new Student Support Manager, Agatha Jones. Agatha joins us from the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Whitechapel and is here to help you throughout your studies at Queen Mary.
If you need advice on any aspect of your academic career, or personal matters affecting your studies, please do not hesitate to contact her in the Administration office or email her at a.m.jones@qmul.ac.uk.
Agatha will also be organising events throughout the academic year and welcomes any suggestions or comments from those who would like to get involved.
Post date: 5th January 2012