Guardian
University guide
LSE is third, behind Oxford and Cambridge, in the latest university league tables published by the Guardian newspaper today.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2009

Management Today
MT Diary
Howard Davies, School director, writes his monthly column.
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/

Guardian
Clinics at work cut sicknotes, says study
Big organisations could dramatically cut absenteeism and save the British economy nearly £1.5bn a year by copying a health experiment that was introduced at the Royal Mail, an investigation by the London School of Economics reveals today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/01/work.absence

FT Adviser
PPI warns over rising state pensions expenditure
To help combat the problem of underfunding, the PPI has announced its New Dynamics and Ageing Population programme would be funding new research into pensions and long-term care through the research group Modelling Ageing Populations to 2030. The project is due to be completed at the end of next year and brings together research experts from the London School of Economics, University of East Anglia, University of Leicester and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
http://ftadviser.com/FinancialAdviser/Personal/News/article/20080501/8a8e8778
-1511-11dd-94ce-0015171400aa/PPI-warns-over-rising-state-pensions-expen
diture.jsp

The Australian
Rich world must cut carbon 80pc: Stern
‘Everything flows from the figures. That is the simplicity of the argument. If you buy into stabilisation at 500 parts per million (atmospheric carbon - equivalent to two degrees rise) the rest is arithmetic,’ Professor Stern told an audience at the London School of Economics.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23627804-11949,00.html
Also in
• Brisbane Times
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/rich-world-must-back-80-per-
cent-carbon-cuts-stern/2008/05/01/1209234990787.html
• NineMSN
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=441238

Bloomberg
Livingstone, Johnson face London vote as Labour approval wanes
‘If Ken Livingstone loses, that's very bad news for Labour and Gordon Brown,' said Patrick Dunleavy, professor of government at the London School of Economics. The race is so close that a recount ‘is a very real possibility.'
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ak9ukHj_673Y&refer=europe

LA Times
Colourful race relieves London gray
‘There's no question that personalities will play a part in this race, and were designed to. This is an American model of presidential politics that has been grafted onto the British body politic, and it was done by Tony Blair quite explicitly and deliberately,’ said Tony Travers, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, talking of the directly elected post, created in 2000, when Livingstone first won the position as an independent.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mayor1-2008may01,1,8
16480.story

Independent
Do we need to have world-class universities?
What exactly is a ‘world class’ university, and what advantages do they bring to the countries in which they are located and, indeed, the wider international community? There appears to be no universally agreed definition. But there are certain universities that, because of their reputation and status, attract significant numbers of the world's best scholars and students. In Britain, Oxford and Cambridge fall under this heading, and so does Imperial College and, in a narrower field, the London School of Economics. Apart from America, most other major industrialised countries have only a few or none.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/roger-brown-do-we-need
-to-have-worldclass-universities-818376.html

Why physics beats drama when it comes to winning a place at university
Cambridge let the cat out of the bag in the summer of 2006 when it published a list of 20 ‘soft’ A-level subjects it regarded as poor preparation for its courses. The list included media studies, travel and tourism, and film studies. Cambridge was quickly followed by the London School of Economics. Other Russell Group universities, however, have continued to claim on their websites and in their prospectuses that they do not discriminate against certain subjects. But the truth, according to schools, is that the leading universities favour traditional, ‘hard’ A-levels, such as history, physics and Latin.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/why-physics-beats-drama-when
-it-comes-to-winning-a-place-at-university-818375.html

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Reuters, South Africa
Rich world must back 80 percent carbon cuts - Stern
Rich countries must commit to cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and developing nations must agree that by 2020 they too will set their own targets, leading economist Nicholas Stern [IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE] said on Wednesday.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL30547675.html
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• Calibre
http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=304648941

FX Street.com
ECB's Garganas: German Wage Gains 'Too Generous'
German wage gains have been ‘too generous,’ European Central Bank Governing Council member Nicholas Garganas said Wednesday. Garganas said that while historically Germany has had almost zero wage gains since the euro zone's inception, he nonetheless cited it as one of the countries that have recently been ‘too generous with their wage increases.’ Garganas, who is also head of Greece's central bank, was speaking at the London School of Economics.
http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?StoryId=56f3d30f-0948
-4693-992d-b8a13001174d

ZD Net
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? That was one of the questions posed to Lord Nicholas Stern, of Stern Review fame, at a business conference this week held at Wembley Stadium in London.
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007988o-2000331759b
,00.htm?new_comment

Birmingham Post
Streamlining ready for 2011 AIM listing
Concentration in the audit market is linked to higher audit fees, according to a new report commissioned by BDO and conducted by the London School of Economics. It claims a drop of 10 per cent in the market share held by the 'Big Four' could lead to a fall of around seven per cent in the annual audit fees paid by UK listed and private companies.
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/other-uk-business/2008/04/30/streamlining-ready-for-2011-aim-listing-65233-20842031/

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