Men's News Daily, California
Psychiatric disorders among parents of autistic children
There is also evidence, from LSE, that the early diagnosis and treatment of autism can reduce the lifetime cost of caring for such patients by as much as two-thirds (in most cases, the difficulties in communication and social interactions that are the hallmarks of autism can usually be detected within the first 3 years of life).
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/05/26/early-childhood-screening-predicts-later-behavioral
-problems-psychiatric-disorders-among-parents-of-autistic-children-social-psychiatric
-profiles-of-young-adults-born-prematurely/

New Straits Times, Malaysia
Economy can bear 40-sen rise in petrol price
Malaysia can raise petrol prices by 30 to 40 sen a litre in the short term without hurting economic growth, an expert with LSE said. Malaysian-born Professor Danny Quah, department head at the UK institution, said over the longer term, fuel subsidies should be done away with because it hid the true cost of this scarce and non-renewable energy, and discouraged better use of resources.
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Frontpage/2251286
/Article/index_html

Malaysia Star, Malaysia
Do away with subsidies
Malaysia needs to seriously consider dismantling its hefty fuel subsidy in stages to keep its budget deficit under control amid record high crude oil prices. Professor of Economics at LSE, Danny Quah, said: ‘I believe Malaysians will still be able to cope if the fuel subsidy is gradually slashed by about 15 per cent to 20 per cent within the next six months.’
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/27/business
/21368026&sec=business

Business Day, South Africa
ANC keeps a dying dream alive at cost of the living
Article by Professor Gwyn Prins, LSE, and Dr Greg Mills, head of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A773692

SourceUK.net
Scottish Futures Trust
The Scottish Government recently announced its way forward for infrastructure investment in Scotland to secure new schools, hospitals and transport projects at better value to the public purse. Professor John Kay, visiting professor of Economics at LSE said: 'PFI is well past its sell by date.’
http://www.sourceuk.net/article/11/11801/scottish_futures_trust.html

Daily News & Analysis, India
Education is business
Vice chancellor of University of Mumbai Vijay Khole feels education should be viewed as a business proposition. Khole was part of a delegation - comprising several college principals and led by Mumbai sheriff Indu Shahani - that visited UK’s leading universities and institutions - Oxford, Cambridge, City and Westminster, London School of Economics, Kings College and Imperial College - to learn the best practices being followed there.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1166670

Monday 26 May

Manchester Evening News
Misery of dementia
A new report on the disease has been published by Martin Knapp, a professor of social policy at LSE and Dr Paul McCrone, a health economist from King's College London. They recommend that health professionals, especially family doctors, should urgently improve their systems for early detection of the disease. It also urges drugs companies to keep up their efforts to develop cost-effective treatments.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/s/1051188_misery_
of_dementia_

Bernama, Malaysia
Dismantle Fuel Subsidy System, Says Economic Professor
The subsidy system, especially for fuel, should be dismantled as Malaysia is capable of absorbing the consequences, according to a professor at LSE. ‘It could well be tolerated by reducing it by 20 percent or if not higher in very short term or in six months,’ said Professor Danny Quah at a public lecture on ‘The Rise and Fall of Subsidies’ organised by the LSE Alumni Society of Malaysia on Monday.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news_business.php?id=335468

Gulf Times, Qatar
Neither EU nor Russia need a new Cold War
As Professor Margot Light of LSE puts it: ‘Russian officials believe these values are determined exclusively in the EU and are simply proclaimed by EU officials for Russia to adopt.’
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=
220541&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

New Statesman
Wanted: new-thinking pioneers
Hugely influential was the New Statesman contributor Professor Anthony Giddens of LSE, whose 1994 book Beyond Left and Right is often seen as the founding text of the Third Way. Although Giddens never worked for the government, his thinking influenced those formulating New Labour policy.
(Source: Lexis)

Die Tageszeitung Taz
Bei Nachwahlen zum britischen Unterhaus kassiert die Labour Party des britischen Premierministers
Doch dazu sei ein Umdenken nötig, glaubt Tony Travers von der London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

Independent
Treasury set to name Turner as FSA head
Adair Turner could be named as the new chairman of the Financial Services Authority as soon as the end of next week, it emerged yesterday, ending months of speculation about who would take the helm at the City watchdog. Adair Turner is a visiting professor at LSE.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/treasury-set-to-name
-turner-as-fsa-head-834429.html

The Age, Australia
Ranking on unis a bonus for city
London, home to leading institutions such as the London School of Economics, retained its number one spot.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ranking-on-unis-a-bonus-for-city
/2008/05/25/1211653848663.html

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Management degree first
THE University of Sydney will today announce the introduction of a master of management course for top students from any discipline, from arts to science. The degree will link students to a master of international management run by other CEMS-accredited schools, including LSE.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/management-degree-first/2008/05/25
/1211653847243.html

Yemen Times, Yemen
British Scholarships for Yemeni students
The London School of Economics and Political Science, the world’s leading dedicated social science institution, has a generous package of scholarships available for students from Yemen.
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1158&p=local&a=5

Sunday 25 May

The Sunday Times
Gym fixes it for Royal Mail absentees
A study by LSE this month claimed that if other UK business sectors with poor absence records adopted Royal Mail’s combination of health/rehabilitation programmes and rigorous absence monitoring, they could save £1.45 billion a year.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/recruiter_forum
/article3998264.ece

The Observer
Dementia will strike down million people
Almost a million people in England will have dementia within a generation and the bill for dealing with the disease will rise to £35bn a year, a major new study reveals. The King's Fund report is the work of Martin Knapp, a professor of social policy at LSE, and Dr Paul McCrone, a health economist at King's College London.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/25/longtermcare.health

Business in Berkshire
Higher housing targets will not improve affordability - Higher housing targets will not improve affordability - new study shows
Government plans for huge increases in house building will not improve affordability - in 20 years home ownership will be even further out of reach for average earners says new research for the South East England Regional Assembly. The research report 'Housing and Affordability in the South East' is by Professor Christine Whitehead from LSE.
http://www.businessinberkshire.co.uk/pool-story.php?newsid=5012

The Edge Daily, Malaysia
Subsidy problem reaches tipping point
Article includes comments from Professor Danny Quah, professor of Economics and head of the Department of Economics at LSE.
(Website Offline)

The Peninsula, Qatar
Pressure on Brown after poll defeat
Tony Travers, a polling expert at LSE, told The Guardian that the result was bad for Labour but ‘not up there with the sort of megashifts’ seen when John Major's Conservatives were running out of steam in the mid-1990s.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&
subsection=United+Kingdom+%26+Europe&month=May2008&file=World_
News2008052545232.xml

The Frontier Post, Peshawar
Not much has changed in Kuwait
As Professor Margot Light of LSE puts it: ‘Russian officials believe these values are determined exclusively in the EU and are simply proclaimed by EU officials for Russia to adopt.’
http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=ar&nid=168

News Post India, India
Indian Peers Ask Gordon Brown To Put His Foot Down
While Lord Paul, chairman of the Caparo Group of industries, is a strong supporter and funder of Brown, London School of Economics professor Lord Desai has been considered a supporter of Brown's predecessor Tony Blair.
http://newspostindia.com/report-56610
Also in
Economics Times, India
Indian peers ask Gordon Brown to put his foot down
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Indian_peers_ask_Gordon
_Brown_to_put_his_foot_down/articleshow/3070919.cms

The Sunday Times
Adair Turner poised for top City regulator job
Adair Turner, one of Labour’s most favoured government advisers, is in pole position to be named as the new chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the City watchdog. Adair Turner is a visiting professor at LSE.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance
/article3998859.ece

The Nelson Mail, New Zealand
CV cheats warned to make the grade
Sunday Star-Times inquiries show former Immigration Service boss Mary Anne Thompson is not the only person to have possibly exaggerated qualifications police are investigating whether she had the PhD she claimed she did. Thompson resigned earlier this month amid concerns she doesn't have the PhD from LSE she claimed she had.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4559996a6417.html

Saturday 24 May

The Wall Street Journal
Trichet Says 'Shocks' Aren't Over for Economy
Article includes comments from Willem Buiter, professor at LSE and a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121158625712519015.html?mod=googlenews
_wsj (Subscription)

The Inquirer
ID card contest takes no losers
Identity boffins at LSE, who have been attacked by the government for suggesting it might have underestimated the true cost of the ID scheme to the tax payer, said today the ID Scheme was jinxed because the technology was too complex and there was too much political interference in the project. ‘Key details about the implementation, oversight and buy–in to the Scheme remain vague,’ said an LSE statement, and implied that this went against the principles of sensible systems design.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/24/id-contest-takes-losers

The Canadian Press
Electoral defeat in Labour stronghold a deep wound for Brown's government
‘It's pretty bleak for Labour unless the economy picks up,’ said George Jones, professor emeritus of politics at LSE. ‘Global pressures are at work here, but people feel Brown is not governing with consistency and authority.’
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hWJ7GGHk_
BhR1zRQoEQAuSX0Wy1Q
Also in
Boston Times
Party's defeat wounds Brown
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/05/24/partys_
defeat_wounds_brown/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z

Tehran Times, Iran
A new cold war? We're yet to adjust to the old one ending
As Professor Margot Light of LSE puts it: ‘Russian officials believe these values are determined exclusively in the EU and are simply proclaimed by EU officials for Russia to adopt.’
http://62.193.18.228/index_View.asp?code=169413

Late-edition headlines
Friday 23 May

The Times Educational Supplement
Poor writing is biggest hurdle
A study last year by LSE estimated that young people classed as NEET (not in education, employment or training) cost the UK economy £ 3.65 billion each year.
(Source: Lexis)

Computer Weekly
Government plans to tap phone and internet use
Peter Sommer, professor at LSE, says that no off-the-shelf systems exist to create a specialist database of this type. A new database would have to be custom-made and would require huge amounts of highly performant - and expensive - hardware to run fast enough.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/22/230779/revealed-government
-plans-to-tap-phone-and-internet.htm

Silicon.com
The Weekly Round-Up
Gus Hosein, senior fellow at Privacy International and fellow at LSE, said that this ‘simple traffic data would be a map of every individual's life’. A bit like a government-mandated version of Google Web History.
http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39230405,00.htm

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Digital Wisdom of Richard Sennett
Usually characterised as a public sociologist of the analog world, Richard Sennett, who splits his time among LSE, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University, has been slighted as a theorist of things digital.
(Source: Lexis)

Women in Technology
Graduates' earning power 'linked to their university'
The earning power of university leavers is strongly linked to the institution they completed their studies at, it has been suggested. Elite universities included Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial College London, King's College London, London School of Economics, St Andrews and University College London.
http://www.womenintechnology.co.uk/graduates-earning-power-linked-to-news
-15017941/

HedgeCo.net
Soros says rebound a bear-market rally
Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros said on Wednesday the current rebound in stock markets is only a bear market rally because monetary authorities are unlikely to be able to handle the credit crisis. Soros told a seminar at LSE, ‘The prevailing market opinion is that this crisis is like previous ones. … Markets have been rallying on that. But I think it’s actually just a bear market rally based on a false conception the authorities can handle all these crises.’
http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2008/soros-says-rebound-a-bear
-market-rally.html

Public Servant Magazine
Miliband admits to scramble for resources
Warning that the balance of power politics, as seen in the Cold War, threatened to return with rogue nations using their natural resources as foreign policy instruments – David Miliband told an LSE audience: ‘We risk a scramble for resources with each nation pitted against each other.’
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=6047

The National Business Review, New Zealand
Credential-checking goes begging
Dubious academic claims are back in the news after it was revealed this month that Immigration Service head Mary Anne Thompson's longstanding claim to have got a doctorate from LSE appears to have been a bit of a lark. The matter is now under official investigation.
(Source: Lexis)

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