Independent
Don't believe everything George Soros says
Well you can listen to him on the web when he is talking at the London School of Economics tonight.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-dont-believe-everything-george-soros-says-831482.html
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• The Financial
George Soros speaks to the world from LSE
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13055&Itemid=9

Daily Telegraph
State school students miss out on big salaries
Pupils from state schools are missing out on £90,000 salaries as teachers refuse to push them towards elite universities, according to a new study.

Half of comprehensive school students believe there is no difference in earning potential associated with a degree from a top university compared with a former polytechnic, it was disclosed.

It comes despite the publication of research showing graduates from leading universities are four-times as likely to be in high-flying jobs.

According to the research, nearly a fifth of students who graduated from leading universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, St Andrews and University College London were earning £90,000 a decade after graduating.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1997299/Education-State-school-
students-miss-out-on-big-salaries.html
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• Guardian
Graduate pay gap between top universities and ex-polys
Researchers at the University of London’s Institute of Education surveyed graduates who left university in the mid-1990s. Elite universities included LSE. Some 22% of the graduates from elite universities now own their home outright, compared with 21% of graduates from other universities and 13% of non-graduates, they found.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2281134,00.html
• Press Association
Study on salaries for pupils
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gyIQ37FHnv2grroKL0uG5S4o260Q

Financial Times
How to preserve the open economy at a time of stress
So countries may indeed be harmed by the prosperity of others. The answer to this is: so what? As Willem Buiter has pointed out (Economic Internationalism 101, Maverecon, May 5 ), nothing can be done to halt the diffusion of ‘knowledge, skills, technology, management systems’ and so forth. Or at least nothing rational or decent can be done.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/edd2a56e-26d0-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.html

New York Review of Books
Economics: Which Way for Obama?
Reference to Professor Anthony Giddens’s ‘third way’ approach. Professor Giddens is a former School director.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21491

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Evening Standard
Don't pull the plug on our Tube's future, Gordon
Boris Johnson is showing commendable energy in assembling his team. But while the faces at City Hall are changing, I can guarantee one thing that will remain worryingly familiar for Boris - and for Londoners. The modernisation of the Tube and the hulk of the public-private partnership will loom over Johnson's administration, just as it did over Livingstone's. And, sure enough, this week there are already reports of a black hole of billions in the Tube's finances. – Article by Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23485894-details/Don%27t+pull+
the+plug+on+our+Tube%27s+future%2C+Gordon/article.do

Maxim News
The London School of Economics to establish the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
http://www.maximsnews.com/news20080520lsebyshandling10805200801.htm

United Press International
Many fear crime, but it's more anxiety
Although many people fear crime, a British study suggests real, immediate threats to people are rarely encountered. Dr Stephen Farrall of Sheffield University and Dr Jonathan Jackson of the London School of Economics found that people did not neatly separate out the issue of crime from general anxiety toward social stability.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2008/05/20/many_fear_crime_but_its_more
_anxiety/2581/

ZD Net
Privacy International director launches 80/20
Simon Davies, who has been involved with campaigning on privacy issues for a number of years, is launching a privacy consultancy firm called 80/20. Half of all profits will be donated to overseas civil liberties causes.

Davies, who is also a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, is trying a new tack to raise the profile of privacy issues. Instead of berating companies whose practices he believes are suspect, Davies instead will work with them to sort through problems.
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008227o-2000331828b,00.htm?new_comment

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