Student services

Page contents > St Philips Medical Centre | Students who have a disability, long-term medical conditions or dyslexia | | Early Years Centre | Chaplaincy | Advice and counselling | Adviser to Women Students | Adviser to Male Students | Student Mentoring scheme | Careers Service

LSE provides a range of support services on campus to ensure that the whole student experience is as rewarding and enjoyable as possible.

St Philips Medical Centre

St Philips Medical Centre is situated on the LSE campus. It provides full NHS services to registered patients and medical care to anyone who becomes ill or needs medical advice while at the LSE campus.

Overseas students on full-time courses lasting six months or longer are eligible to use the National Health Service on the same terms as UK residents. Others are advised to maintain private insurance.

Information about the NHS and how to register/make use of its services is available on the medical centre web pages.

Students who have a disability, long-term medical conditions or dyslexia

LSE's Disability Equality Scheme, as required by the Disability Discrimination Act (2005), can be viewed at: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/pdf/disabilityEqualityScheme.pdf

The Disability and Well-being Office is part of the Teaching and Learning Centre and provides a first point of contact for prospective and current students with disabilities, long term medical conditions and/or dyslexia. Prospective students are encouraged to make early contact with the office and, where possible, make a preliminary visit to the School.

UK students are advised that they may be eligible for a Disabled Student Allowance to fund disability-related costs. Further details are available at www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance

Facilities at LSE include:

• An accessible library with two study rooms and some computers reserved for students with disabilities; lockers; a book fetch service and photocopying assistance where required
• Assistive software and specialist IT support
• A number of accessible and adapted rooms in three halls of residence
• All lecture theatres and some classrooms are fitted with infra-red hearing support systems
• Readers, note-takers and support assistants can be arranged as part of the LSE Circles Network of peer/staff support
• Practical support can also be provided by a Community Service Volunteer (CSV)
• There is a rest room, with a bed and easy chairs

An Individual Student Support Agreement (ISSA) records agreed 'reasonable adjustments' for individual students and is circulated with the student's consent
You can contact the Disability and Well-Being Office by telephone: +44 (0)20 7955 6034 or by email: Disability-Dyslexia@lse.ac.uk .

Early Years Centre

The School provides an Early Years Centre for children between the ages of six months and five years. There are places for 63 children of students and staff of the School. From year to year, there may be a waiting list.

The centre is open for 47 weeks of the year including all term time. Further information is available from the manager. 

Web pages at: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/nursery

Chaplaincy

The Chaplaincy offers a welcome and hospitality to all, as well as the opportunity to talk to a chaplain at any time. It provides a focus for information and support for students interested in spiritual issues as well as those already committed to a particular faith. It works with an ecumenical Christian team and representatives of various religious societies of the Students' Union, such as the Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist and Baha'i Societies, as well as societies for different Christian denominations. The Chaplaincy can be found in Room G9, 20 Kingsway, opposite the Peacock Theatre. There is also a Muslim Prayer Room in the basement of King's Chambers. 

Advice and counselling

The LSE Student Counselling Service is free of charge for all current students at LSE. It aims to enable students to cope more effectively with any personal or study difficulties that may be affecting them while at LSE. There are six professionally qualified and experienced councillors in the service, and we offer about 80 sessions of counselling each week. Each session lasts for 50 minutes. The service is part of the Teaching and Learning Centre (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/TLC). All counselling sessions need to be booked in advance, and can be made in person, by phone or email. There are also 'urgent' slots available each day for students in distress, which last for half an hour. The service is open throughout the year, apart from when the school is closed (bank holidays/School closure days). The website has detailed information about the service, together with a wide range of advice and self-help resources.

The LSE Students' Union Advice and Counselling Service offers:

• legal and welfare advice on a wide range of problems including finance, childcare, immigration, disability, tenancy agreements, problems with landlords, Council Tax, etc.
• personal one-to-one counselling for students who are experiencing emotional or personal problems (a part-time counsellor).
• The Centre also administers several SU Funds eg Childcare Fund, Disabled Students Fund.

For more information visit the Students' Union website at: www.lsesu.com

Adviser to Women Students

A member of the academic staff acts as the Adviser to Women Students. She is available to discuss all issues of concern to women students in the School, including sexual harassment, and to offer advice and support to women students with personal problems. 
The Adviser has a positive commitment to increase awareness in the School of matters which concern women students and to take new initiatives which may improve the quality of life for women students in the future.

Adviser to Male Students

A member of the academic staff acts as the Adviser to Male Students. He is available to discuss issues of concern to male students and provides a point of contact.

Student Mentoring scheme

All new undergraduate students can opt in to the student mentoring scheme, which matches new undergraduates with current 'student mentors'.

Mentors provide a friendly face for incoming students and information on the wide range of support services available at the School. New students can contact them via LSE email in the first instance, and then in person once they arrive at the School.

Mentors come mainly from the second and third years of undergraduate degrees. Each prospective mentor attends a training session which includes a workshop on perceptions of mentoring, a guide to support services at the School, and a session on listening skills and referring problems on to other sources of help.

Careers Service

Choosing the right career before graduation is probably one of the most important decisions in any student's life. Whether you come to university with some ideas about your future career, or whether your ideas are still unfocused, the Careers Service can help you develop a plan of action. The LSE Careers Service can help you to realise your career plans successfully with a wide range of information and advice about graduate occupations, employers and postgraduate courses, as well as part-time and vacation work, both in the UK and overseas. Whatever your aims, the Careers Service can help you find your dream job.

An experienced team of careers advisers and information staff provides assistance and advice, both informally and in careers seminars and interviews. We encourage you to start thinking about your career and gathering information long before your graduation our booklet LSE Student Guide to Personal Development Planning, available online or in the Careers Service, will help you get started and ensure you make the most of the unique opportunities available to you as a student.

Come and talk to the Information Team at the Careers Service and have a look through the extensive Careers Service web pages, to learn more about career options and the recruitment process. It is particularly important to plan early if you are thinking of applying for vacation work and internships or want to apply for competitive areas with early closing dates, such as the civil service, finance, teaching, media training schemes and postgraduate study.
We run an extensive programme of careers fairs and forums, themed to match the career aspirations of LSE students and host many employer presentations, skills sessions and recruiter-in-residence sessions with top employers.

We also run an extensive programme of careers fairs and forums, themed to match the career aspirations of LSE students, and host many employer presentations, skills sessions and recruiter-in-residence sessions with top employers. These events are your opportunity to learn about your future career options from the experts, network with potential employers, find out more about individual organisations, and develop specific skills that are crucial to success in both the graduate recruitment process and wider workplace. Venture@LSECareers is our new entrepreneurship and enterprise service, helping you to develop entrepreneurial skills and develop your ambitions to work in social enterprise or start up your own business venture.

Whether you are looking for full-time graduate vacancies, internships, work experience, vacation work or part-time, term-time jobs to help you finance your study ,you can search for current job vacancies at 'My Careers Service'. This is our online career management tool, through which you can also view our events calendar, book one-to-one careers advice and CV checking appointments, and register your occupational interests to receive targeted careers emails.

LSE graduates make their careers in a wide range of occupations and the choice of career is extensive. Graduates find employment in a range of occupations in areas such as finance, consultancy, industrial and commercial management. They may enter the teaching profession; go on to undertake academic research; find expert posts as economists, lawyers or statisticians; join central or local government NGOs, or enter journalism. A comprehensive list of recent graduate destinations can be found at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/graduateDestinations.

Most courses at LSE will enable you to develop analytical, numerical, IT, problem solving, and written and communication skills. These can be complemented by team, organisational, business and creative skills, which you can gain from activities with LSE clubs, societies, sports and the Students' Union. You can develop language skills at the LSE Language Centre, study skills at the LSE Teaching and Learning Development Centre, IT skills with LSE IT Services, and communication skills by participating in the LSE Student Tutoring Scheme, which takes place in schools in London, or by undertaking voluntary work organised by the Volunteer Centre. The Careers Service encourages students to recognise and develop these skills from an early stage and to relate them to employer needs and activities in their applications.

Some degree programmes may, because of their content, qualify you for some exemptions in the respective professional examinations in later training. All are designed to provide a foundation for career development and you should read the more detailed sections on degrees in this Prospectus for specific information.

Syllabuses are generally wide and comparatively flexible and, for this reason, you ought not to allow your choice of courses to be dominated by thoughts of future careers unless you are firmly committed to a specific programme for professional reasons. There is one golden rule to follow in choosing your course: choose the subjects you like and are good at.

More information, including 'information for prospective students', can be found at www.lse.ac.uk/careers

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