Financial Times
ID scheme hit for shifting cost to citizens
The Home Office on Tuesday faced claims of ‘creative accounting’ as it pledged to cut nearly £1bn ($2bn) from the cost of the identity card scheme. But Edgar Whitley of the London School of Economics’ Identity Project said the decision to leave collection of biometric data to the open market risked compromising security and increasing the cost to the consumer.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/83d8c908-1bc3-11dd-9e58-0000779fd2ac.html

Britain to set tougher rules on recruiting migrant labour
Jobs to be classed as ‘shortage occupations’ will be decided by a new migration advisory committee headed by David Metcalf, professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/affad70c-1bd1-11dd-9e58-0000779fd2ac.html

Choice of adviser signals end to skyscrapers
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, said the Johnson administration meant the end of new towers outside the existing clusters in the City and Canary Wharf. ‘I think it’s very unlikely we will see any tall buildings in and around Victoria, Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea after this,’ he said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89eea646-1bc3-11dd-9e58-0000779fd2ac.html

The Age, Australia
Workplace reforms need commitment to work
Article by Dr Paul Gollan, an associate fellow in the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group at the London School of Economics.
http://business.theage.com.au/workplace-reforms-need-commitment-to-work/200
80506-2bo3.html

Late-edition headlines

Journal of Turkish Weekly
Book Review - What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the root Causes of Terrorism
Alan B Krueger, economy professor at the Princeton University and adviser to the US National Counterterrorism Center, studies the effects of poverty and lack of education on terrorism in What Makes a Terrorist. The author bases his book on three lectures he gave at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55022

IndiaEduNews.net, India
Meghnad Desai to address Tata Institute convocation
Lord Meghnad Desai, professor emeritus at the London School of Economics, will deliver the annual convocation address of the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), an official said here on Tuesday.
http://www.indiaedunews.net/Maharashtra/Meghnad%5FDesai%5Fto%5Faddress%
5FTata%5FInstitute%5Fconvocation%5F4187/

Wall Street Journal and La Press (2 May)
Professor Rodney Barker, head of the Government Department at LSE, was interviewed for these publications about the elections.

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Denmark (28 April)
Professor Rodney Barker comments on ideologies and socialism.

Press Association (15 April)
Professor Rodney Barker comments on Gordon Brown and the economy.

LA Times
Professor Rodney Barker comments on Gordon Brown position.

LSE people on TV/Radio

BBC Business
Professor Willem Buiter, Chair in European Political Economy European Institute, LSE, was interviewed yesterday on the subject - 10 years of the euro.

BBC Radio London (2 May)
Professor Rodney Barker, head of the Government Department at LSE, appeared on the programme discussing the elections.

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