LSE in print
Education for all Why do so few men take gender studies courses?
The Guardian, 20/11/2012, p.13, Unattributed
In the three previous years there have been a quarter to a third men: a better turnout than on many gender programmes. Yet at the LSE this year, it's not much better: out of 85 students on gender studies master's courses, eight are men. Last year it was five out of 89 students.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2012/nov/19/so-few-men-gender-studies|
No amount of moralising will alleviate this hardship
The Guardian, 20/11/2012, p.31, Polly Toynbee
“David Cameron, in his now notorious Hugo Young lecture, accepted the measure and claimed inequality mattered. "More unequal countries do worse according to every social indicator" he said – though he has now reneged from that. He also claimed: "As the state expanded under Labour, our society became more not less unfair." Not true, says Professor John Hills, the LSE's great expert on inequality. He says the poor caught up significantly with the middle, and all those below the line did better by exactly the same amount.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/19/moralising-hardship-tory-austerity|
The price of separatism: can Spain afford to let Catalans break away?
The Guardian, 20/11/2012, p.20, Giles Tremlett
be flexible, is the dynamics of the breakdown. Once Catalonia is out, the burden on the other rich regions increases, and they will want out," says Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics. "So for Spain the prospect, without Catalonia, is complete disintegration of the country." This would be a tough moment to try independence. Catalonia's economy is shrinking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/catalonia-vote-future-spain|
Velvet divorce worked out well - but as partition, not separation
The Guardian, 20/11/2012, p.21, Kate Connolly
experience due to their long communist legacy. While the Czechoslovak partition is widely seen as a model of how to divide a country peacefully, Abby Innes, a lecturer at the London School of Economics and author of Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye, argues against using it as the template for other dissolutions. "I think it's a partition rather than a legitimate and mandated separation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/lesson-catalonia-czecho-slovak-
divorce|
Ground war would lose Israel its allies
The Daily Mirror, 20/11/2012, p.7, Fawaz Gerges
THERE is a race against time between escalation and international diplomacy in the Middle East. The odds of an Israeli invasion of Gaza are 50-50 in my opinion. Although Israel is massing its troops on the Gaza border, they are trying to exert maximum pressure on Hamas to accept its conditions for a ceasefire. An invasion would have major implications
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/israel-palestine-conflict-death-toll-soars-1446164|
The poor are growing richer - and it's nothing to do with redistribution
City AM, 20/11/2012, p.24, Ryan Bourne
in the top 1 per cent today may not have been in the top 1 per cent five years ago. In his recent book Changing Fortunes, Stephen Jenkins of the London School of Economics found just 17 per cent of households remained in the same tenth of the income distribution in 2006 compared to their original 1991 position, suggesting fairly
http://www.cityam.com/forum/the-poor-are-growing-richer-and-it-s-nothing-do-redistribution|
LSE online
Regional tensions flare at Asean summit
Financial Times (Web), 19/11/2012, Unattributed
rather than organisations and some in Beijing see Asean as part of an anti-Chinese conspiracy to limit China," said Odd Arne Westad, an expert on Chinese foreign policy at the London School of Economics. "But the more pressure China brings to bear, the more likely there will be a backlash leading to increased regional cohesion." Diplomats have argued that Asean must
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e87b2b74-3240-11e2-916a-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmarkets_emerging%2Ffeed%2F%2F
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Report backs income tax powers for Wales
Financial Times (Web), 19/11/2012, Unattributed
the party leader and first minister in the assembly government, has said he is not in favour, in the short term, of this power being devolved. In a speech to the London School of Economics this month, he indicated his preference for a system where a portion of money raised in Wales would be "assigned" there but without the need for
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53b1ac7e-3237-11e2-b891-00144feabdc0.html|
Catalonia is voting on its future in Spain ? and Madrid is worried
guardian.co.uk (Web), 19/11/2012, Giles Tremlett
be flexible, is the dynamics of the breakdown. Once Catalonia is out, the burden on the other rich regions increases, and they will want out," says Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics. "So for Spain the prospect, without Catalonia, is complete disintegration of the country." This would be a tough moment to try independence. Catalonia's economy is shrinking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/catalonia-vote-future-spain|
Britain's best universities 'failed to fill 11,500 places'
Telegraph (Web), 19/11/2012, Graeme Paton
in the Russell Group certainly, we could have a further round of empty places next year." The Russell Group represents 24 universities including Oxford, Cambridge, University College London and the London School of Economics. It is not known which institutions had vacancies. Hilary French, head of Central Newcastle High School and president elect of the GSA said: "It seems to
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9689004/Britains
-best-universities-failed-to-fill-11500-places.html|
Happy teenagers earn more as adults
guardian.co.uk (Web), 19/11/2012, Alok Jha
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve of University College London and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said: "Everybody feels intuitively that the individuals who have a sunny disposition have a larger network and more opportunities seem to come their way, they are more likely to rise in an organisation and become a leader in the group. All these things have indirect ways of ending up in higher earnings and there is a direct effect that goes direct to income."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/19/happy-teenagers-earn-more
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Greece: When anger goes beyond despair
CNN International
Editor's note: Dr Athanasia Chalari is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Worcester and a research associate at the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics. London (CNN) -- For the last three years Greek society has suffered a ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/19/business/opinion-greece-strikes-despair/|
Castro makes big London splash
San Antonio Express
Mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro, right, reacts to the applauds from Director of LSE Professor Craig Calhoun, left, and the students at the end of his speech to the students on "US Leadership in the 21st Century" at the London School of Economics ...
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Castro-makes-big-
London-splash-4051231.php|
Denim Group Invited to Join Government Trade Mission to the U.K. to Discuss Key Economic Development
Reuters via Yahoo! - Nov 20 at 6:50 GMT
the Houses of Parliament at 10 Downing Street. Mayor Castro will also give a keynote lecture at the London School of Economics, one of the top 10 universities in the U.K., on ?U.S. Leadership in the 21st...
http://news.yahoo.com/denim-group-invited-join-government-trade-mission-u-064621542.html|
Julian Castro talks political ambition (not his) on an international stage
Macleans.ca - macleans.ca - Nov 20 at 1:56 GMT
to the regular layout. America’s newest political rock star dismissed “what ifs” during a visit to the London School of Economics on Monday. “I’m never going to be the president or the vice-president,” Julian...
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/19/julian-castro-talks-political-ambition-
not-his-on-an-international-stage/|
Wendy Davis: 'A Pile of Bricks'
Huffington Post UK - Wendy Davis - Nov 20 at 0:01 GMT
all the other bidders withdrew for various reasons, including a 'moving of goalposts' leaving only one 'bidder'; the London School of Economics.MPs, members of the House of Lords, London Assembly members...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/wendy-davis/save-the-womens-library-campaign_b_2143928.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-culture?ncid=GEP|
Sarah Pilchick: History Repeating? Lessons We Can Learn From Inter-War Germany
Huffington Post UK - Sarah Pilchick - Nov 19 at 10:54 GMT
author of The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler and producer of the titular BBC documentary, spoke at the London School of Economics last night on the nature of leadership - mainly, how could significant portions...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sarah-pilchick/history-repeating-lessons_b_2143730.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-culture?ncid=GEP|
As it happened: Gaza-Israel violence
BBC - Nov 19 at 22:11 GMT
have our throats cut, well sorry guys, that's just not happening!! 0822: Professor Fawaz Gerges from the London School of Economics, referring to efforts to find a ceasefire in the Egyptian capital...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20390614|
Executive Education, but Not for Business
New York Times
The London School of Economics and Political Science provides much of its professional training via LSE Enterprise , a specialized unit with one of the biggest programs of its kind in the world. Yury Bikbaev, director of LSE Enterprise, said that his ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/world/asia/19iht-educlede19.html?_r=0|
Growing respect for the Bologna process.
University World News – 18 Nov 2012
Anne Corbett comments on the growing acceptance of the Bologna Process to develop a European Higher Education Area.
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20121115090020591|
LSE on TV/Radio
BBC Radio Wales (19 Nov)
Breakfast
Tony Travers comments on recommendations for the Welsh Assembly to have tax raising powers.
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire (19 Nov)
Breakfast
Tony Travers comments on the Prime Minister’s plans to make it more difficult to challenge planning decisions.