MoneyWeb, South Africa Baby don’t go The emigration of high-skilled whites must be stopped and reversed, and skilled immigration must be encouraged, because the shortage of skilled workers is destroying employment prospects for the unskilled, according to the Final Recommendations of the International Panel on Growth in South Africa. The report is the result of an extensive study of the South African economy conducted by specialists from South Africa and abroad, including LSE. http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page62093?oid=206643&sn=Detail
Guardian (University Guide) Doing what they do best In the ferociously competitive world of higher education, today's Guardian university rankings are bound to get a lot of attention ... Imperial may have gone down three places and the London School of Economics risen three, but one doesn't imagine either will lose any sleep over it. http://education.guardian.co.uk/university2009/story/0,,2279494,00.html (print edition in today’s paper – online edition was posted last week)
Daily Telegraph It's so British to let out firms becomes foreign The government, often accused of meddling in other areas, has studiously avoided protectionism, and business has shown little inclination to ask for special treatment. Rightly so. ‘We gain more from openness than we would from erecting barriers,’ says Sir Geoffrey Owen, former Financial Times editor, and fellow at the London School of Economics. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/13/do1303.xml
The Australian The more things change, the more they stay the same In the Daily Telegraph yesterday - The wonderful Sutton Trust demonstrated this in study after study, and Labour ministers stuck their fingers in their ears. A report last year by Steve Machin of the London School of Economics showed that the expansion of higher education in the 1980s and '90s entrenched social immobility because the poor's schools were not good enough to exploit new opportunities. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23686988-20261,00.html
