Financial Times Livingstone eager to capture Polish vote At the meeting, questioners press Mr Livingstone on issues affecting their working lives. Marta Golonka, a London School of Economics lecturer, speaks out against the worker registration scheme, under which east European migrants must register with the Home Office before they can work. As she points out, they must also re-register if they change jobs, addresses or their marital status. ‘This is discrimination,’ she says. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c92cc52-0ff7-11dd-8871-0000779fd2ac.html
Bloomberg King plan has ‘slim' chance of reviving lending, Goodhart says ‘The likelihood of getting the mortgage market going again is slim,' said Goodhart, a founding member of the Monetary Policy Committee and now a professor at the London School of Economics, in a telephone interview yesterday. ‘This just prevents things from getting worse. It's a backstop.' http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ahhcLa2mSbfw&refer=europe
Times Packed tighter than the books, British Library discovered by the reading masses Article about desk/reading room space issues in the British Library. In the library café, three young law undergraduates from the London School of Economics said that they couldn’t use their university library because it was always fully booked. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3792739.ece
Daily Telegraph The movers and shakers in Britain's banking and insurance sector Who are Britain's top business people? The Daily Telegraph is spotlighting 1,000 British-based business movers and shakers over the next two weeks. We have divided the business world into 10 sectors. Today we profile the top executives in the energy and utility sector. Number 5 is Peter Sutherland, chairman of BP, and LSE’s Court and Council. (Source: Lexis)
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Marie Claire.co.uk Pay mums to stay at home But Catherine Hakim, of the London School of Economics and one of the report's authors, said: 'Numerous studies into parental values regarding childcare have revealed a much greater diversity of parental preferences than the Government would like to believe. One study showed that, in an ideal world, only one third of mothers in Britain would use any childcare at all before their child's third birthday.' http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/252870/pay-mums-to-stay-at-home.html
