THE
Free sector and let fees rise, argue Lords
Lord Desai, emeritus professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said he ‘would like to see the full fee charged’ to reflect the true costs of teaching undergraduates. Universities should not receive any state subsidy for teaching, he argued, but should meet teaching costs out of their own revenues. ‘This would encourage more concentration on where the comparative advantage lies,’ he said.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=402602&c=1

Tax all graduates, says Blackstone
A graduate tax on everyone who has benefited from higher education, including those who went to university years ago, has been mooted by a former Education Minister. Baroness Blackstone, who is now vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich, said that as a graduate herself of the London School of Economics she would be happy to contribute even now, more than 40 years on.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=402603&c=1

Guardian
City regulation: Treasury committee warns of delay in new FSA market abuse powers
Questioned by the committee, Turner also admitted being ‘surprised’ by the failings within the FSA in the months before the Northern Rock crisis last year and revealed he had discussed the position with the regulator's first chairman, Sir Howard Davies, before accepting the role.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/03/regulators.corporatefraud1

The Western Australian
School computer plan must extract the digital
There is precious little hard international evidence that giving every student a computer can be economically justified. A recent study from the decidedly left-wing London School of Economics found some improvement in English and science, but ‘for mathematics, the impact of ICT on test scores is very close to zero’. ‘So, unlike previous economic studies, this research finds evidence of a positive causal impact of ICT investment on educational performance in primary schools,’ the report said. As it admits, that study is at odds with most of the available international research.
(Source: Lexis)

Thai Press Report
Military intervention not likely in Zimbabwe
Christopher Alden, an expert on international relations with the London School of Economics, agrees that military intervention is not likely any time soon. Alden adds that if conditions in Zimbabwe do worsen, military action will only happen with the blessing of Africa's leaders.

‘The UN will take its lead from the African Union which is meeting. If the African leaders see this crisis as they did with Darfur, if they see it as an equivalent kind of crisis that it's reached that stage, they will give the green light that will enable the UN to step in. So I think a lot of the pressure is really on the African leadership which up until now has been privately critical but publicly largely supportive of Mugabe,’ said Alden.
(Source: Lexis)

Wall Street Journal
Wiping DT's Board Clean
Deutsche Telekom (DT) in recent weeks admitted to spying on Wilhelm Wegner, who is a board member and works council representative, as well as other executives and some journalists in 2005-2006, writes Tom Kirchmaier who works on issues of corporate governance and corporate restructuring at the Manchester Business School and at the Financial Markets Group at LSE.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121503746582724453.html?mod=opinion_main
_commentaries

Manchester Evening News
Gran takes drug battle to court
A grandmother fighting for a drug that could give her months more to live is taking her battle to the High Court. They have instructed Professor Conor Gearty, a barrister at Matrix Chambers and Head of the London School of Economics’ Centre for Study on Human Rights, to fight her case.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/s/1056585_gran_takes_drug_
battle_to_court

Late-edition headlines

Sun
Mobile trend to surf the internet
People are surfing the internet and logging on to social networking sites from their mobile phones at an ever increasing rate. A study by ICM Research and the London School of Economics claims 24 per cent of mobile phone users have subscribed to a social networking site on their mobile phone in the past year.

‘Social networking appears to be less demanding on our time yet many people cannot wait until their ‘social time’ in the evenings and some people clearly need to check their social networks throughout the day as well,’ said Leslie Haddon from the London School of Economics. She added the majority of internet users (39 per cent) admit they access email anytime of the day followed by 26 per cent of respondents who access it mainly in the evening.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1371372.ece#OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

ZDNet
Mobile users make same errors as disabled PC users
Dr Carsten Sorensen, senior lecturer in information systems at the London School of Economics, said the research illustrated a fundamental problem with some mobile applications. ‘Most people who make mobile applications think the device is a small computer. This is standard error number one,’ said Carsten. ‘If you want to write programs for mobile phones that make people tick, don't start by taking programs like Exchange and just shrinking them. There's a massive gap between what people want and what people who make devices think they want.’
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39442145,00.htm

All Africa
South Africa: Economy Can Weather Global Slowdown
Speaking from the headquarters of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) on Wednesday, Mr Mpahlwa said South Africa was recently identified by a professor at the London School of Economics as one of four emerging economies in the world. This placed South Africa's economy among China's, India's and Brazil's.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200807020813.html

City Wire
A 'cynical pragmatist' to lead the FSA
Profile of Lord Adair Turner, the incoming chairman of the FSA. Turner, who becomes chair of the regulator in September, ticks all the boxes as general problem-solver: academia – he lectures at the London School of Economics…
http://www.mrscohen.com/personal/-/news/money-property-and-tax/content
.aspx?ID=307262

Jerusalem Post
A tale of two central bankers
The two governors [Professors Stanley Fischer and Mervyn King] have many things in common: a strong association with the London School of Economics, careers spanning both academia and policy making, and a "hawkish" outlook on inflation.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1214726185553&pagename=JPost%
2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC World News/News Channel
HARDtalk
In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 2 July, Stephen Sackur talks to the former head of the Financial Services Authority, Howard Davies [director of LSE].
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/7485091.stm

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