Daily Telegraph
Science 'one grade harder' than arts at A-level
Students are being encouraged to study ‘easy’ A-levels such as media studies at the expense of tough science-based subjects to get better grades, according to academics. Some universities - such as Cambridge and the London School of Economics - have already drawn up lists of subjects they claim are not academically rigorous enough.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2223394/Science-'one
-grade-harder'-than-arts-at-A-level.html

Quantum
Single Jeopardy
Howard Davies, School director, argues that despite the questions now being raised about the effectiveness of a singe regulator, developments in financial markets in recent years have tended to strengthen the case for this system.

Western Europe Pharma and Healthcare Insights
Coping With Spiralling Drug Costs
A new report from the London School of Economics assessing the pharmaceutical policies in Finland has identified a number of challenges and possible methods for overcoming rising drug expenditure in the country.
(Source: Lexis)

RINF.com
ID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptions
The Home Office’s own estimate for the cost of the scheme over 10 years (the renewal period for an ID card) is £4.4bn. Divided by 40 million UK adults, that equates to a cost per card of more than £100 - but to say so is scaremongering, apparently. Never mind that the London School of Economics estimates the costs to the taxpayer may be five times higher still.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/id-scheme-the-truths-half-truths-and-deceptions/4010/

Late-edition headlines

Irish Examiner
EU working just fine — so why change it?
The Lisbon Treaty was never about making the EU work more efficiently. A study by Professor Helen Wallace of the London School of Economics showed EU institutions are working as efficiently as ever despite the increase from 15 to 27 states.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=opinion-qqqm=opinion
-qqqa=general-qqqid=66204-qqqx=1.asp

Evening Standard
It’s time to show us your hand, Boris
Article by Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23503188-details/It%27s+time+to+show
+us+your+hand%2C+Boris/article.do

Financial Times
Sloan creates Wall Street wizards
The Sloan school at MIT is to join the growing number of North American schools that offer a masters degree specialising in finance, for those who want a career on Wall Street. The Master of Finance degree has had a distinguished provenance in Europe, where top-ranked institutions such as London Business School, London School of Economics and Cambridge University have established programmes. In France, HEC Paris has run its Masters in Finance programme since 1986.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f863acde-46bb-11dd-876a-0000779fd2ac.html

CNN Money
BIS general manager on leave with effect from Tuesday
Malcolm Knight has accepted an appointment as non-executive vice chairman of Deutsche Bank AG (DB), coordinating regulation, supervision and financial stability for the managing board. Knight will also become a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djhighlights/200806300858DO
WJONESDJONLINE000249.htm

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4
The NHS At 60 – The Cost Of Health
A series of four programmes to be broadcast on Tuesdays at 9-9.45am aimed at stimulating thinking about priorities for funding within the NHS, and to raise questions of public values.

LSE Emeritus Professor Richard Layard will be putting the case in the first programme for more funding of psychotherapy for people who are suffering from depression and Professor Sube Nanerjee from King's College will put the case for early intervention in cases of dementia.

Dr Lawrence Phillips, Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences at the School will comment about the process of decision making for these competing treatments, in particular how competing values and differences in perspective can be accommodated in taking decisions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/costofhealth_20080701.shtml

PM
Professor Julian LeGrand, professor of social policy at LSE, appeared on the show last night discussing the NHS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/ (5.25pm)

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