Financial Times
Visible measure that help reduce absenteeism
According to a London School of Economics' analysis of health and well-being policies across the group, such initiatives have saved the Royal Mail as much as £227m over three years by cutting absence across its 180,000 strong workforce from seven to just under five per cent between 2004 and 2007.
http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=%22london+school+of+economics%22&aje=true&id=080417000172&ct=0

Biochemistry alone cannot explain market turmoil
Letter to the editor from M Saad Siddiqui, a postgraduate student at LSE.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13684286-0c17-11dd-9840-0000779fd2ac.html

THE
London School of Economics - American partnership announced
UK students can now study international history at a leading US university under a new programme offered by the London School of Economics. LSE in partnership with Columbia University, New York, is offering a new two-year LSE-Columbia double masters degree in international and world history, which starts this autumn.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401450

In at the kill
What is it about crime and universities? As the film of The Oxford Murders premieres, Matthew Reisz probes a world of professor-sleuths, philosophical riddles and the academics who are hooked on them, including Mary Evans, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Gender Institute.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401469

Newsweek
Luck Of The Wary
Critics say these banks are enjoying the accidental upside of their sluggish response to innovation. ‘Some banks were lucky in that they just weren't on the ball enough to discover these new financial inventions,’ says Willem Buiter, a banking expert at the London School of Economics. ‘There's some advantage to being slow when the speedy crowd all go off the cliff together.’
(Source: Lexis)

The Weekly Standard
The Right Stuff; Michael Oakeshott and the 'disposition' to conservatism.
Oakeshott wrote a great deal on the nature and meaning of history, and it has always been an oddity of his career that he never published a work of history. Now he has. Volume II of the Selected Writings consists of his lectures on the history of political thought at the London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

Late-edition headlines

Forbes
Polish finance ministry says deputy finance minister Gomulka resigns
London School of Economics lecturer Stanislaw Gomulka resigned today as Polish deputy finance minister, the ministry said in a statement.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/16/afx4896373.html

LSE academics and staff on TV/Radio

Radio Singapore International
Protecting Knowledge: Balancing Commercial and Public Needs
Professor Conor Gearty, director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE, gives his view on the public’s right to various types of knowledge, and how much importance should be attached to commercial considerations in the access of knowledge.
http://www.rsi.sg/english/25minutes/view/20080416171329/1/.html

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