Financial Times
A long road to recovery for ailing institution
Profile on the NHS as it nears its diamond jubilee on Saturday.
‘There is no doubt that the NHS is improving,’ says Julian Le Grand, professor of health and welfare policy at the London School of Economics, and a former adviser to Tony Blair. But, he adds, ‘the outcomes of care are still not as good as they should be.
‘We do very well on some measures - deaths from diabetes for example - but pretty poorly on others. And while the performance has got better, it is not clear on the currently available evidence that we are improving relative to other countries where there have also been advances.
‘It remains possible, however, that the big programme of reform that the NHS has been subjected to, at least in England, will get us there.’
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/00a74cbe-463c-11dd-9009-0000779fd2ac.html

Times
Judges scorn American-style sentencing to control prison overcrowding
Michael Zander, Emeritus Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, who has analysed the responses in the New Law Journal, said that the plans had met with ‘an avalanche of withering comments’. Lord Carter had failed even to mention the New Zealand model, which was ‘way ahead’ in reform of sentencing. Not one of the bodies or academics who responded to the paper supported it, Professor Zander said. ‘They rubbished it. The idea is dead in the water.’
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4237721.ece

USA Today
As CEO pay in Europe rises, so does talk of curbing it
CEOs in Europe have traditionally earned less than their US counterparts, says Vicente Cuñat, who analyzes CEO compensation at the London School of Economics. But in the past 15 years, he says, ‘Europe is catching up.’
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2008-06-29-europe-ceo-pay_N.htm

Maclean’s
Guess who’s watching porn
Although it's hard to quantify exactly what and how much online porn kids are looking at, a report from the London School of Economics found that nine out of 10 children between the ages of eight and 16 have viewed at least something that qualifies. In the majority of cases, the London School of Economics report says, children's exposure to online pornography is inadvertent - the result of misspelled words and Web addresses, or confusing a .com suffix for a .net.
(Source: Lexis)

Express India
‘Autonomy will give us academic freedom, we can set our curricula’
How will attaining autonomy prove to be an advantage for the college and its students?
Dr Frazer Mascarenhas, Principal of St Xavier’s College: During my recent visit to some elite institutions in the UK, including Oxford and the London School of Economics, I interacted with some autonomous college authorities. We would like to emulate parts of their system.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Autonomy-will-give-us-academic-freedom
-we-can-set-our-curricula/329121/

The Herald
Letters - ID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptions
Letter refers to LSE estimates on the cost of government proposed ID cards.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2369795.0.ID_scheme_the
_truths_the_halftruths_and_the_outright_deceptions.php

Sunday 29 June

Times
Hang the high-speed train, just give commuters a seat
None of the proposed high-speed lines goes south of London. It’ll still be sardines all the way to Surbiton and beyond. That’s one reason why Tim Leunig, an independent expert on rail at the London School of Economics, is less than enamoured of high-speed plans.

‘They would be a complete waste of money,’ he says. Leunig argues that high-speed rail is fine for traffic between very large urban centres, such as London and Paris, but of little use in solving Britain’s capacity problem.

‘We need to get back to thinking about what our railway is for,’ he says. He notes that ‘about 70% of rail journeys begin or end in London, and the three busiest stations are Waterloo, Victoria and Liverpool Street’.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4231183.ece

Guardian
Parallel trade in drugs puts EU patients at risk
Pharmaceutical manufacturers want a crackdown on the practice of buying cheap medicines to re-export at a higher price, a trade that creates shortages in countries such as Greece - and, arguably, allows in dangerous counterfeits. Article mentions LSE research which estimates savings at a lower level and concludes that there are no direct benefits to patients.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/29/pharmaceuticals

The Age, Australia
Emissions scheme captures ideas for transition spin; Perspectives
Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, in a report for the London School of Economics, says a comprehensive global deal is manageable, but only if developed countries take the lead with binding emissions targets and then transfer resources and technologies to developing countries. Stern does not expect developing countries to take on their own binding targets before 2020.
Technology - another reason for Australia to hasten slowly - is ‘particularly important’ in Stern's global plan. Effective carbon capture technology, he says, could deal with up to 50 per cent of emissions.
(Source: Lexis)

Saturday 28 June

Daily Telegraph
Beveridge, a reluctant hero Labour leaders fought hard against the recommendations that led to the welfare state
Profile of William Beveridge, a civil servant, who in 1919 became the first director of the London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

El Pais
'Negacionismo climático'
Los interesados en argumentaciones menos ideológicas y técnicamente más solventes que las de Klaus y Lawson pueden consultar un reciente documento (Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change, abril de 2008) de Nicholas Stern, el conocido autor de un influyente informe sobre las consecuencias económicas del cambio climático (2006), documento que puede descargarse desde la web de la London School of Economics and Political Science.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/opinion/Negacionismo/climatico/elpepuopi/
20080628elpepiopi_8/Tes

Late-edition headlines

Daily Telegraph
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Profile of the LSE alumnus who has He has funded more than 200 scholarships at his former universities, City and the London School of Economics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nationaltreasures/2191986/Sir-Stelios
-Haji-Ioannou-portrait.html

LSE on TV/Radio

BBC Radio 4
Start the week
American author Fareed Zakaria will be on this morning’s programme – he is giving a lecture at LSE this evening.

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