BBC News Online
Health plan 'missing key targets'
Professor Gwyn Bevan from the London School of Economics, an expert in the use of targets in the English health service, said they succeeded because failing trusts were named and failing bosses lost their jobs, something that has not happened in Wales. He said: ‘If you have a set of targets but some are missed and no one worries much about it...the whole thing loses credibility.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7391477.stm

Public Finance Magazine
New ID card cost estimates prompt fears over security
The Identity Project at the London School of Economics said the report explicitly acknowledged the decision to drop the use of iris biometrics. The LSE’s Dr Edgar Whitley said: ‘It is worrying that the only way that the government can still keep its initial promise that an identity card will cost only £30, despite two major cost reduction revisions to the scheme, is by effectively excluding the biometric enrolment element.’
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/publicfinance/news_details.cfm?News_id=32873

Daily Telegraph
Bank of England: The nine people who set UK interest rates
Profile of the nine members of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee – including Professor Tim Besley, LSE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/08/
nosplit/bcnvote108.xml

ITN
Miliband's carbon-free world vision
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called on Europe to lead the world in moving to a low-carbon economy. Speaking at the London School of Economics he said 'We face a new resource crunch, with spiralling energy and food prices as well as water shortages. 'Its origins are carbon dependence. We risk a scramble for resources, with each nation pitted against the other. The alternative is a transition from a global economy dependent on oil and gas to a low-carbon economy with a diverse mix of energy sources and suppliers.’
http://itn.co.uk/news/08938a07a05967bfe47f9c2349882b8f.html

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Independent
Calling time on the long PhD
Students used to get as long as they needed to complete their PhDs. But now universities are imposing submission targets. Is this the end for the next generation of original thinkers? Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics took 17 years over his, turning it into a book on the foreign relations of South Yemen two months before South Yemen merged with North Yemen and disappeared.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/calling
-time-on-the-long-phd-823190.html

A gift-horse that’s worth harnessing
Article about bursaries which refers to the Deutsche Bank scholarships at LSE. ‘Our raison d’etre is to get the best people, no matter where they come from,’ says Warwick Smith [head of press at LSE].
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/need-a-bursary-universities-and
-businesses-have-never-been-so-generous-823383.html

BBC News Online
Berlusconi is sworn into office
Mr Berlusconi's closest aide, Gianni Letta, returns to his previous job of cabinet under-secretary. Another aide, Sandro Bondi, will be culture minister. ‘It's a mixed bag,’ said political analyst Robert Leonardi of the London School of Economics, commenting on the cabinet line-up. ‘On the one hand there are a number of people who we've seen before - the usual suspects - but there are also a number of new people, some of whom are unknown quantities,’ he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7389695.stm

FXstreet.com, Spain
French Official: Euro Strength Mitigates High Energy Prices
European policymakers agree that the euro's strength relative to other world currencies is a ‘question of balance,’ Jean-Pierre Jouyet said in a lecture at LSE on Thursday.
http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?StoryId=7770df97
-4391-4861-b702-505431dda8b9

Londra Gazete
Be individual says motivator Arat
A seminar by author and personal development expert Melih Arat on Tuesday evening saw him calling on people to be individual an not follow the herd. The seminar, organised by the Professional Network, was held at the London School of Economics.
http://www.londragazete.com/haber_detay.asp?haberID=937

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