Financial Times
A party pooper's guide to financial stability
Article by Professor Charles Goodhart, emeritus professor of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and Avinash Persaud, chairman of Intelligence Capital
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03224342-3299-11dd-9b87-0000779fd2ac.html

Guardian
Facebook information should be regulated, survey says
Some experts suggested it would prove beneficial to bring some form of light self-regulation to the internet, but questioned whether there was a real consensus on what "intrusive" really meant. "If you take pictures and put them on Facebook, you've deliberately surrendered your privacy," said Charlie Beckett, the director of Polis, a journalism thinktank at the London School of Economics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/05/privacy.socialnetworking

Anthony Giddens Profile
Profile of the former School director.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/04/anthonygiddens

Shanghai Daily, China
Urban experts' 'endless' approval for Shanghai
Article looks at the book The Endless City which compiles thinking, dialogues and discussions from the project on six major international cities - New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin. It was edited by London Design Museum curator Deyan Sudjic and LSE urban planning professor Ricky Burdett.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200806/20080605/article_361971.htm

Times Online
Fewer state school students at top universities
Top universities have failed to attract more students from state schools and working-class backgrounds, despite spending millions on outreach schemes, according to HESA. David Willetts, the Shadow Universities Minister, said that too few state school pupils were getting the right advice on what A levels they would need to get into elite universities. Of the 740,000 A levels taken in England last year, 240,000 were on the list of ‘soft’ subjects that are accepted by top universities, such as Cambridge and the London School of Economics, only if they are studied with traditional subjects, he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article4069357.ece

New York Sun, United States
Straws in The Wind: The Atlantic Alliance
I just spent an evening at the London School of Economics for a lecture by Columbia Law Professor and Presidential Adviser Philip Bobbitt about his new book Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/straws-in-the-wind-the-atlantic-alliance/79357/

International Herald Tribune
Leader of disappearing island nation says climate change an issue of survival, not economics
Speaking in New Zealand the host country for the U.N.'s World Environment Day on Thursday Kiribati President Note Tong [an LSE graduate] said global efforts to curb climate change may already be too late for low-lying Pacific islands.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/05/asia/AS-GEN-New-Zealand-World-Environment-Day.php

ABC
O historiador Paul Preston, en Carral O experto participou este mes nun ciclo do Club Internacional de Prensa de Galicia, para falar dos correspondentes estranxeiros na Guerra Civil española
Paul Preston is professor of contemporary Spanish studies at LSE
(Source: Lexis)

Late-edition headlines

AP
World welcomes Obama win
Michael Cox, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, said Obama's win ‘has sent out a lot of positive signals around the world.’ He has a very appealing persona — elegant, fluent, strings lots of sentences together into paragraphs,’ Cox said. ‘But in terms of (his) actual policies towards the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, China, Europe — actually, we don't know.’
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgyU--y40ALkiQkccvudvkhow7AQD91399J00
This story was run by a number of publications

Community Care
Experts hope adult care research unit will raise sector's profile
Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, welcomed the initiative because ‘social care research is an underfunded area’. But he argued its scope was too limited because it only covers adult social care and not children's services.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/04/108405/dh-social-care-research-body-should-focus
-on-personal-budgets.html

ThirdSector
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/

The Financial
LSE and global partners launch third year of China government training programme
A group of 45 senior Chinese government officials started work this week on a training programme in public policy run by four global universities, including the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14160&Itemid=9

Handelsblatt
Chinesen und Inder sind schlechte Manager – noch (2 June)
Chinese and Indian enterprises are on the average clearly more badly led than companies from Europe, show a new study London School of Economics. But the new competitors learn fast in addition. If the Europeans do not watch out, they are soon caught up.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/News/default.aspx?_p=301104&_t=ft&_b=1437528

New Kerala
India's inflation set to rise, says OECD
Although the Indian economy is likely to continue expanding on a 'strong albeit reduced growth path' there is a risk that the rate of inflation will not come down, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in its Economic Outlook for 2008 to end-2009. The OECD projection echoes concerns that have been voiced publicly by distinguished economists, including Professor Lord Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics.
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=68953

LSE people on TV/radio

More4 News
Dr Linda Yueh, CEP associate, appeared to discuss the global food summit.

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