Independent
League tables
LSE has moved up one place from fourth to third in the Independent 2009 Complete University Guide. The School has also moved up to second place from third in the regional rankings. Full results will be on the Press Office news pages later this morning.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/the-main-league-table-2009-813839.html

Independent, Ireland
Reinvent yourself as a kitchen table tycoon
The phrase was originally coined by an expert at the London School of Economics.
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/reinvent-yourself-as-a-kitchen-table-tycoon-1357005.html

THE
The quest for a new New Deal
Howard Davies [School director] appraises the sound economic and political sense behind Paul Krugman's latest work.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401551

The week in books
China Returns to Africa: a superpower and a continent embrace edited by academics including Christopher Alden, senior lecturer in international relations, LSE.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401550

Allow us to work past 65
Letter to the editor, co-signed by academics including Henry Wynn professor of statistics at LSE.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401569

Guardian
From maverick outsider to establishment candidate. But can Livingstone win again?
'He is now fighting on several fronts,' says Tony Travers, director of the Greater London group at the London School of Economics. 'He is fighting a general move away from Labour nationally; he is fighting a largely hostile media; he is fighting a candidate who has not slipped up in the way many people expected; and he is fighting the strong impression among some voters that it is, quite simply, time for a change.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/24/london08.london

MPC split makes May cut less likely
Two other members, the former CBI and British Airways economist Andrew Sentance and the London School of Economics academic Tim Besley, voted to leave the rate at 5.25 per cent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/24/interestrates.bankofengland
governor1?gusrc=rss&feed=business

New Zealand Herald
Brian Fallow: Time to pay for big spend
The link between the exchange rate and international interest rate differentials has led to calls to rethink the monetary policy framework. It is not just local voices taking this line. A couple of eminent visiting economists have too - Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Wade of the London School of Economics. Professor Wade said: 'Where some governments are inflation-phobic and others are trying to stimulate, and where capital flows are unrestricted, interest rates in the inflation-prone countries are likely to rise to levels which attract carry trade inflows from low inflation countries to capture the interest rate differentials.'
(Source: Lexis)

L'Express
Un trublion à l'assaut de Londres
Dans un tel contexte, une défaite des travaillistes dans la capitale serait du meilleur augure pour le chef de l'opposition conservatrice, David Cameron, bien décidé à s'installer à Downing Street, après les élections générales de 2010. La victoire de Johnson entérinerait le virage stratégique opéré contre la vieille garde, et destiné à récupérer cet électorat bobo (bourgeois bohème), économiquement aisé et socialement ouvert, que Tony Blair avait ravi à la droite. 'Inversement, sa défaite, au moment où le Labour est au plus bas, serait un mauvais signe,' analyse Tony Travers, professeur à la London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

Management Consultancy
LSE ignites privacy settings project
The London School of Economics (LSE) is undertaking an identity management project to examine how 10,000 staff and students manage their privacy.
http://www.managementconsultancy.co.uk/computing/news/2214998/lse
-ignites-privacy-settings-3964271

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Research Research
Government to invest £1bn in development research
The government plans to invest £1 billion in development research over the next five years, it was announced on 22 April.
http://www.researchresearch.com/getPage.cfm?pagename=ResearchDay&lang=
EN&type=UK&Publication=Research%20Day%20UK&Issue=2969

The Lawyer
UCL beats King's in mooting showdown
UCL emerged victorious over King's College London yesterday at the inaugural London Universities Mooting Shield (LUMS) final. Teams from King's and UCL beat the London School of Economics (LSE) and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) over a total of 12 matches since December 2006.
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=132362&d=386&h=388&f=387

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