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Why Canada has gone Pole fishing
The Sun, 06/11/2012, p.28, Anita Prazmowska
They especially want those doing construction and transport jobs to boost their flagging economy. Here Polish-born Professor ANITA PRAZMOWSKA of the London School of Economics and author of A History Of Poland, explains why "our" Poles are in such demand in North America. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4629372/Why-Canada-has-gone
-Pole-fishing.html|
Spain's deepening lack of hope takes its toll
Financial Times, 06/11/2012, p.8, Tobias Buck
there much prospect of improvement: the Spanish economy is set to shrink further next year, and is expected to suffer yet more job losses. Luis Garicano, a professor at the London School of Economics, says he, too, believed until recently that Spain's image was worse than the true situation. But no longer. Spain, he says, now arguably faces a greater
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/47bfc3f4-236b-11e2-a46b-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2BQeU
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Green shoots
City AM, 06/11/2012, p.29, Unattributed
years, primarily by the UK's dependence on imported gas, it is not clear why Sinclair is so ideologically opposed to a shift to domestic low-carbon sources of energy. Bob Ward, London School of Economics.
http://www.cityam.com/forum/rapid-responses-281|
LSE online
Two chief social workers are better than one and will unite the profession | Eileen Munro
guardian.co.uk (Web), 05/11/2012, Eileen Munro
Eileen Munro is a reader in social policy at the London School of Economics and was commissioned by the government to review safeguarding practice, which led to the Munro report on social work in 2011.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/nov/05/two-chief-social-workers-eileen-munro|
Kuwait takes hard line on unauthorised protests
Reuters UK (Web), 05/11/2012, Sylvia Westall
"The events of the past two weeks have crossed so many red lines and we now are seeing acts of mass civil disobedience as tens of thousands of people defy government warnings and the Family Council's call for obedience to the emir,” said Kristian Ulrichsen, research fellow on Gulf States at the London School of Economics.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/05/uk-kuwait-politics-idUKBRE8A40ZS2012
1105?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews|
Kuwait takes hard line on unauthorised protests
Yahoo! UK and Ireland (Web), 05/11/2012, Unattributed
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/kuwait-takes-hard-line-unauthorised-protests-162935229.html|
Intense fighting in Syrian capital
TalkTalk (Web), 05/11/2012, Unattributed
rebels killed in air raid on the northern town of Harem. "It's the worst-case scenario many feared in Syria," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. "It's an all-out war." The fighting in the capital of Damascus was some of the worst since July, when rebels took over several neighbourhoods…
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/world/article/intense-fighting-in-syrian-capital/67302/|
Intense fighting in Syrian capital
Daily Express (Web), 05/11/2012, Unattributed
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/356375/Intense-fighting-in-Syrian-capital|
Transcript of Prime Minister's Q&A at Zayed University, Dubai
10 Downing Street (Web), 06/11/2012, Unattributed
provide great education for future students. I think one of the strengths that Britain has is a very strong university sector, not just Oxford and Cambridge and University College London, London School of Economics, but also all of the universities in Britain: Newcastle, Durham, Edinburgh; these are all excellent institutions. And I think we need to do more, not
http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/david-cameron-qa-at-zayed-university-dubai/|
Calculating when it is the right time to conceive
Irish Times
A woman aged 35 has less than a 10 per cent chance of conceiving during her next menstrual cycle following a period of six months of unsuccessful attempts, according to researchers at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics. This ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/1106/1224326174287.html|
Future Of Policing: 'Thousands Considering Leaving'
Police Oracle
The survey, conducted by the London School of Economics and Political Science, highlighted that those who considered leaving the service thought the work had become tougher and they were not supported by senior officers, ministers or the media. The low ...
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Police+Performance/2012/Nov/06/Future-Of
-Policing-Thousands-Considering-Leaving_57682.html|
Syrian activists shuffle council; chaos rocks capital
USA TODAY
"It's the worst-case scenario many feared in Syria," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "It's an all-out war." The fighting in the capital of Damascus was some of the worst since July, when rebels ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/05/activist-group-at-least-50
-troops-killed-in-syria/1682893/|
Hidden Sub-Saharan Boom is African Growth “Miracle”
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been one of the world's poorest regions, but a new working paper by economist Alwyn Young of the London School of Economics reports much faster growth in the region than previously thought. Young notes that the lack of ...
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2012/11/05/hidden-sub-saharan-boom-is-
african-growth-miracle/|
'Without travel, life is rather mundane'
Times of Malta
Had it not been for that eye-opening and life-changing experience, I would not have been adventurous enough to go to Britain to do graduate studies (at the London School of Economics) in 1971-1972 and to travel across Europe and the Soviet Union that ...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121104/travel/-Without-travel-life-
is-rather-mundane-.444151|
American voters value honesty over strength in future president
The FINANCIAL
As The London School of Economics and Political Science reported, the next most highly ranked quality was 'intelligence' which was selected by 31 per cent of voters. 'Common sense' and 'experience' were chosen by nine per cent and 'strength' by just ...
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/118796_American_voters_value
_honesty_over_strength_in_future_president/|
At the Women’s Library
London Review of Books blog, 2/11/2012, Joanna Biggs
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/11/02/joanna-biggs/at-the-womens-library/|
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