LSE in print
Sussex down, Surrey up in Guardian guide to universities
The Guardian, 04/06/2013, p.4, Richard Adams
of the Guardian's table there was little movement, with the top four places occupied by the same premier league as in the past two years: Cambridge, followed by Oxford, the London School of Economics and St Andrews. University College London moves back into fifth place, nudging up one from sixth last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/03/sussex-tumbles-down-guardian-league-table-of-unis|
Cambridge tops the league for the third year
The Guardian, 04/06/2013, p.35, Alice Woolley
Overall the London School of Economics comes third and St Andrews fourth. This year, Surrey University can celebrate its first appearance in the top 10: in at number eight, one place ahead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/03/cambridge-tops-guardian-
university-guide|
Brum belittled
Financial Times, 04/06/2013, p.12, Brian Groom
A warning about heavy-handed efforts to redirect activity can be taken from an extract from a history of Birmingham republished by Henry Overman, of London School of Economics, on his blog.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/071a9836-ca07-11e2-8f55-00144feab7de.html#axzz2V8Xuh9nU|
The peace maker
Financial Times, 04/06/2013, p.8, John Paul Rathbone
we shall walk away." Having established the point, the emotional temperature in the room drops, his aides relax and the president resumes his inscrutable poise. Santos, 61, studied at the London School of Economics and, like many well-bred Colombians, has a strand of Anglophilia.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3eb35de-9dfd-11e2-9ccc-00144feabdc0.html|
LSE online
Archive images will celebrate life of suffragette
ITV.com - Jun 4 at 0:42 BST
Anna Towlson is an archivist and the London School of Economics. To mark the centenary of the death of Emily Davison, LSE is celebrating her suffragette life with an exhibition of images from The Women's Library @ LSE collection.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-06-04/archive-images-will-celebrate-life-of-suffragette/|
Why the University of Surrey is on the rise
guardian.co.uk (Web), 03/06/2013, Bim Adewunmi
National Student Survey (NSS): Surrey records a healthy 73% (two percentage points behind the table leader Cambridge University) and the NSS Teaching score is a hefty 90%, higher than the London School of Economics and University College London. The University of Surrey has its picturesque main campus on Stag Hill in Guildford.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/shortcuts/2013/jun/03/university-of-surrey
-guildford-top-10|
Want to know where to get a cheap education? Cambridge and Bristol are the most expensive university cities while Liverpool costs £6,000 less
Mail Online UK (Web), 03/06/2013, John Harpercorbis
best value for money by offering the highest ranking for lowest rental costs. The weekly cost of privately renting a room in the northern city averages £62. Within London, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is slightly cheaper in terms of tuition costs, falling £500 per year lower than most of the Russell Group universities, who charge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335030/Want-know-cheap-education-Cambridge-Bristol-expensive-university-cities-Liverpool-costs-6-000-less.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490|
Cambridge is most expensive city to be a student
Telegraph (Web), 03/06/2013, Claire Carter
prices at the 24 Russell Group of universities and also looked at the cost of beer and tuition fees. London had the most expensive pints, but tuition fees at the London School of Economics and Political Science slightly cheaper than elsewhere. Liverpool, Sheffield and Nottingham were all found to offer the lowest rents, with weekly costs of around £55 compared
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10094566/Cambridge-is-most-expensive-city-to-be-a-student.html|
EU 'needs new fundamental law'
BBC (Web), 03/06/2013, Unattributed
Reaching out to voters Next year's European elections are a vital opportunity to re-engage voters with the EU, said Prof Simon Hix, a European elections expert at the London School of Economics (LSE). Conservative MEP Martin Callanan said the EU "has no demos", or body of opinion behind it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22756558#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa|
Vodafone faces tax dilemma
BBC (Web), 04/06/2013, Unattributed
But if Vodaphone does pay a very low bill on the deal, the company risks a hostile reaction given the high profile political debate around corporate taxation, says Professor John Kay at the London School of Economics. "The norm in the past has been that you would structure deals like this so that there is little or no corporation tax [or] capital gains” he says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22754722|
Myanmar Hosting VIPs Exposes Growth Challenges: Southeast Asia
Businessweek – 03/06/2013
“There is a gold rush” into Myanmar, said Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. “This is one of the last few remaining places that has not has been penetrated, but the ...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-03/myanmar-hosting-vips-exposes-growth-challenges-southeast-asia|
Outrage as NYU professor tweets that obese PhD students 'don't have the willpower for the academic program'
Mail Online UK (Web), 03/06/2013, Louise Boyle
has joined NYU's Stern School of Business for eight months until this August. He has been published in a wide range of international academic publications and conducted research at the London School of Economics, the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Germany and UCLA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335177/NYU-professor-Geoffrey-Miller-
tweets-obese-PhD-students-dont-willpower-program.html|
Baroness Hayter: Emily Davison's campaign continues
ePolitix.com (Web), 04/06/2013, Unattributed
to her courage, and her cause, but to commit themselves – in every part of policy – to include steps to encourage, promote and facilitate women’s full role in society. The LSE hosts an on-line exhibition to Emily Davison
http://centrallobby.politicshome.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/baroness-hayter-emily-davisons-campaign-continues/|
June 4 jolted pan-democrat trio into political activism
South China Morning Post, 04/06/2013
A London School of Economics graduate and an accountant in London then, Leung said he had "started to think of issues from a Hong Kong perspective" since the crackdown, and spent his free time in social movements such as the fight for Hongkongers' ...
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1252858/june-4-jolted-pan-democrat
-trio-political-activism|
Protests in Turkey: The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back
Huffington Post, 04/06/2013
He completed his PhD on secularism and Islam in Turkey, at the University College London. Omer Cavusoglu is a researcher and project manager in urbanism, and has received his MSc. from the London School of Economics. Karabekir Akkoyunlu is a PhD ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hasan-turunc/turkey-protests_b_3379544.html|
First State's Asante: QE-fuelled boom could turn to bust
Citywire.co.uk
He began his career as an economics lecturer at the London School of Economics before joining NatWest as an economist albeit 'briefly' because he 'wanted to see the world'. That led to nine years at AXA Framlington where he worked on a range of ...
http://citywire.co.uk/global/first-states-asante-qe-fuelled-boom-could-turn-to-bust/a682251|
The Happiness Tipping Point
Huffington Post
In 2003, London School of Economics Professor Richard Layard founded the Wellbeing Program after giving a series of public lectures titled Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue? The publication of his book, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, soon ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sunnie-toelle/happiness-tipping-point_b_33755
80.html|
Bank of England's King Plans to Waltz Into the Sunset
CNBC - Jun 3 at 9:30 BST
later on Sunday, the 65-year-old, who was previously a professor at the London School of Economics, expressed sadness that his focus on work had damaged his private life. "The career always...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100783529|
Die vielen Irrtümer zur Nachhaltigkeit: Schadet Tiefkühlkost dem Klima und sind Hybrid-Autos besser ...
FinanzNachrichten.de - Jun 4 at 5:34 BST
zwei Großstädte mit je vier Millionen Einwohnern. Zu ähnlichen Ergebnissen kommt die London School of Economics. Nach ihren Berechnungen belastet jeder New Yorker das Klima jährlich mit zehn...
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2013-06/27014560-die-vielen-
irrtuemer-zur-nachhaltigkeit-schadet-tiefkuehlkost-dem-klima-und-sind-hybrid-
autos-besser-198.htm|
“Tanta desigualdad es corrosiva”
El País - Joseba Elola - Jun 4 at 1:19 BST
Inglaterra natal era notable. Estudió Economía y Ciencia Política en la prestigiosa London School of Economics, se doctoró en la Universidad de Yale (Estados Unidos), y su primer trabajo como...
http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/30/eps/1369930831_246722.html|
Varios Nobel de los premios Jaime I urgen a actuar contra el paro
El País - Joaquín Ferrandis - Jun 4 at 0:51 BST
será fácil por los problemas de financiación existentes. Christopher Pissarides, de la London School of Economics y Nobel 2010, argumentó que el mercado laboral español todavía tiene una parte...
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/06/03/valencia/1370284669_883308.html|
Recycled bikes donated to Africans in need of speed
Voice Online - Bart Chan - Jun 3 at 15:45 BST
the charity twelve years ago when he was studying management at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was nicknamed Dr Bike, because he taught people to how fix bikes in exchange for beers...
http://voice-online.co.uk/article/recycled-bikes-donated-africans-need-speed|
Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation
Huffington Post - Elliott Negin - Jun 3 at 13:44 BST
scientist. He has a master's degree in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science. But that doesn't stop him from posing as a climate expert--and it hasn't stopped...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/unreliable-sources-how-th_1_b_3367567.html?utm_hp_ref=media|
The bar-going man who could split Britain from EU
NBCNews.com - Alastair Jamieson - Jun 3 at 7:53 BST
after , while another organizer resigned after UKIPs original founder Alan Sked, a London School of Economics professor, has lamented that his party has been "captured by the radical right" and...
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/02/18585203-the-rise-of-the-bar
-going-crowd-pleaser-who-wants-britain-to-break-with-europe?lite|
LSE on TV/Radio
ITV (3 June)
ITV News
Coverage of the Emily Wilding Davison exhibition at the LSE Library.
BBC Radio 4 (3 June)
Coretta Phillips interviewed about her research in the book The Multicultural Prisoner.
BBC Radio 4 (3 June)
Today
News report quotes John Kay on Vodaphone tax liabilities.
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