Financial Times
NHS delivers big increase in quality of care
The quality of care in the National Health Service has improved significantly over the past decade, one of the most systematic studies of the issue has concluded. ‘Unquestionably, the past 10 years have seen significant changes in quality,’ said Sheila Leatherman, professor of public health at the University of North Carolina and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. These changes, she said, ‘have made a real difference to patients and the public’.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ff7a7d64-2608-11dd-b510-000077b07658.html

Guardian
So what’s the attraction
The universities with the largest numbers of international students – LSE is in eight place with 5980 (2006-07 figures).
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/internationalstudents/story/0,,2280979,00.html

Why we buy what we buy
A few weeks ago, [Dan Ariely] did the routine at the London School of Economics, and prompted that rare thing in a lecture hall, a stage invasion. Impartial observers swore that they had never seen such excitement among the normally mild-mannered students of portfolio theory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/may/20/consumeraffairs.economics

Late-edition headlines

Guardian
Fear of crime linked to community concerns
People are more likely to fear crime if they are worried about social change and their community breaking down, a study reveals today. Stephen Farrall, of Sheffield University, co-authored the report, Experience and Expression in the Fear of Crime. He said it showed fear of crime was an important indicator of any societies' wellbeing.

His co-author, Jonathan Jackson, of the London School of Economics, added: ‘Fear of crime is more often a broader anxiety than a concrete worry about the threat of victimisation – but in any case, these emotions are all bound up in public concerns about social change and the health of the norms and values that underpin our society.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/19/fear.of.crime
Also in
• Politics.co.uk
ESRC: Fear of crime or anxiety about a rapidly changing society?
http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/opinion-former-index
/communities-and-local-government/esrc-fear-crime-or-anxiety-about-rapdily
-changing-society--$1223282$365399.htm
• The Financial
Fear of crime less frequent finds new LSE research
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12941&Itemid=9
• Innovations Report
Fear of crime or anxiety about a rapidly changing society?
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/gesellschaftswissenschaften/bericht-110334.html
• Physorg.com
Fear of crime or anxiety about a rapidly changing society?
http://www.physorg.com/news130420173.html

Yorkshire Post
Sheffield: The city that came back from the brink
The London School of Economics has been charting the progress of Sheffield and six other European cities, including Bilbao and Turin, which 20 years ago were on the brink of collapse following the rapid decline of the manufacturing industry, and all seven have engineered ‘phoenix from the flames’ recoveries. ‘Sheffield and the other cities have proved far more resilient than many people dared to hope,’ says Anne Power, professor of social policy at the LSE and author of the report.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/The-city-that-came-back.4096442.jp

Canadian Press
Premier McGuinty in London to urge Britons to invest in Ontario
McGuinty's address to the chamber luncheon was the centrepiece of his two-day visit to London, which included a visit to the stock exchange and an address at the London School of Economics.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5imuNsVx2ljcIze9rRaxwtp2veRaw

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