Independent
Labour's broken promise fails the young on crime, say experts
Writing in Criminal Justice Matters, Professor Rod Morgan, visiting professor at LSE and the former head of the Youth Justice Board, says he was ‘incensed... by the incomprehension and arrogance regarding the research process which some administrators displayed’.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/labours-broken-promise-
fails-the-young-on-crime-say-experts-839595.html

Imperial College to introduce entrance exams
One of Britain's leading universities is to set its own entrance exam because it believes that grade inflation has ‘destroyed’ A-levels as a way of distinguishing between candidates. Imperial College was ranked as the joint third best university in the UK, with the London School of Economics, beaten only by Oxford and Cambridge, according to The Independent university league tables.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/imperial-college-
to-introduce-entrance-exams-839599.html

Third Sector
Opinion: Our crucial role in tackling inequality
Last year, a report by the London School of Economics showed that parental background continues to exert a very powerful influence on the academic progress of children.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/login/813830/

Times
Letters - Arguments for and against 42-day detention
Letters to the editor, including one from Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, Emeritus professor of law at LSE.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4060114.ece

ecancer
UK cancer research cited more often
UK cancer research is helping to deliver significant clinical improvements for cancer patients, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer. Lead author Professor Richard Sullivan, who conducted this study when he was director of clinical programmes at Cancer Research UK, is now at the London School of Economics and the European Cancer Research Managers Foundation.
http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/news-insider-news.asp?itemId=198

The Straits Times, Singapore
Floreat the modern school motto!
Gordon Brown once pledged to govern Britain according to the motto of Kirkcaldy High School, which he attended: Usque conabor (I will try my utmost). Judging by opinion polls, he needs to try harder. Restless backbenchers may soon throw him to the wolves. I would have preferred something more modest: Non uno die Roma aedificata est (Rome was not built in a day), for example; or rerum cognoscere causas (to understand the causes of things), the London School of Economics' motto; or in limine sapentiae (on the threshold of knowledge), York University's.
(Source: Lexis)

Korea Herald
International employment forum opens in Seoul
A two-day international forum on employment began in Seoul yesterday to map out a plan for how to achieve job creation while promoting economic growth. Participants include Christopher Pissarides Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at LSE.
(Source: Lexis)

TV3, New Zealand
MPs to be investigated in immigration enquiry
MPs are to be investigated by the Auditor-General as part of a wide ranging inquiry into the Immigration Service, in the wake of the resignation of former boss Mary Anne Thompson.
Ms Thompson quit amid a residency-for-relatives scandal and major question marks over her claimed London School of Economics PhD.
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/MPstobeinvestigatedinimmigrationenquiry/tabid/209/
articleID/58252/cat/41/Default.aspx
Also in
• TVNZ
Inquiry to skirt criminal liability
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1828525

Late-edition headlines

Ars Technica, USA
The implications and applications of genetic testing
On Saturday, the World Science Festival hosted an event entitled, ‘Your Biological Biography: Genes and Identity.’ Nikolas Rose, a sociologist from the London School of Economics' BIOS Center, was on hand to put the biological information in perspective.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/06/03/the-implications-and-applications
-of-genetic-testing

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4
The Forum
Renata Salecl, centennial professor of Law at LSE, will appear on the panel in tonight’s programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/forum.shtml

BBC Radio 4
You and Yours
Professor John Hills, professor of social policy and director of CASE at LSE, appeared on the programme yesterday discussing the tax system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/

LBC 97.3
Breakfast
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE, appeared on the programme yesterday morning discussing Boris Johnson’s time as Mayor of London.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/

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