Independent
The art of finding a specialism
Despite a booming market in MBAs, more and more students are turning to specialist Masters courses. Article profiles students including Ed Boyd, who is studying an MSc in management at LSE. ‘Boyd’s management and economics course at LSE was only launched last year and the School is launching a new two-year Masters in management this autumn.’

‘Wherever you choose to do them, MAs and MScs remain an attractive alternative partly because they are not generalist MBAs, explains LSE professor Paul Willman, the course director for its new two-year Masters in management programme.’
(not currently online)

Letters UCU’s Palestine Stance
Letter to the editor from Dr John Chalcraft, lecturer in the Department of Government at LSE.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/education-letters
-ucus-palestine-stance-844805.html

Complete University Guide Sports Table 2009
LSE is ranked 62 out of 140 institutions in this league table published in today’s Independent Education Supplement.
(table not published online)

THE
High IQ turns academics into atheists
In a forthcoming paper for the journal Intelligence, Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, will argue that there is a strong correlation between high IQ and lack of religious belief and that average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 countries. Andy Wells, senior lecturer in psychology at the London School of Economics, said the existence of a correlation between IQ and religiosity did not mean there was a causal relationship between the two.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402381

Banality at bargain prices
Britain's knowledge base has eroded, and university bookshops are the place where the collapse in academic standards is most brutally obvious. Take the cream of these, The Economists' Bookshop in Clare Market, just by the London School of Economics, and the Gower Street ‘department store’ opposite University College London. Both shops now belong to just one company, Waterstone's (which is owned, in turn, by HMV). Here, academics and students can no longer browse a wide range of titles because, as all shop or factory managers know, the longer the list of options, the higher the costs and the lower the profits.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402359

Daily Telegraph
Brussels crackdown on 'overspending' Britain
Tim Congdon, a professor at the London School of Economics, said the clash with Brussels is likely to prove a thorn in the side for the Government for a long time. ‘If Brussels is jumping up and down now, it is going to be even worse next year. The second half of 2008 will be very grim for the economy,’ he said. ‘The budget deficit is highly sensitive to the economic cycle and deteriorates with a lag. It will not be surprising if it reaches 4pc or 5pc of GDP.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/06/12/cnukecon112.xml

Cinco Dias
La economia de la salud, a examen
Durante su intervencion en las jornadas, Julian Le Grand, profesor de London School of Economics and Political Science y ex asesor de Tony Blair, dejo claro que muchos de los problemas de salud mas frecuentes son fruto de los excesos. ‘La gente fuma, bebe y come mucho, toman drogas ilegales, ingieren mala comida y han adquirido muchos habitos sedentarios’.
(Source: Lexis)

Personnel Today
Delivering on absence management at Royal Mail
A London School of Economics (LSE) report out last month found that between 2004-07, Royal Mail reduced absence rates for its 167,000-strong workforce from 7% to 5%. About 3,600 employees who had previously been absent were back at work, saving the group £227m.
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/06/12/46275/delivering-on-absence
-management-at-royal-mail.html

Asia Times
India to upgrade higher education
India allowed 100 per cent foreign direct investment in education in 2001, but red tape and tough entry regulations have resulted in a poor progress. Top foreign institutes such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and the London School of Economics have not opened campuses in India. Instead, according to official figures, the US remains the most sought-after destination for Indian students, who form the largest proportion of international students in the US at more than 100,000.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JF12Df02.html

Independent Catholic News
Talk on religion and secularism in public life at LSE
Professor Cristina Lafont will speak about religion and secularism in the public sphere next Tuesday 17 June at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/taljk675.html

Late-edition headlines

Indiaprwire
Experts Urge Rethinking of India's Urban Strategy
In a symposium hosted by Urban Habitats Forum yesterday on Shaping Cities of Our Future experts opined that urbanisation is an integral part of economic development process and India's future is going to largely depend on the manner in which we urbanize. Philipp Rode, Executive Director, Urban Age; Associate, Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science spoke on Shaping Cities of Our Future.
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/other/2008061110245.htm

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