LSE in print
Playing with fire
Times Higher Education, 09/05/2013, p.33
Letter. “Having been one of the few lecturers in the UK to have had an undergraduate in my care treated as a spy while backpacking in North Korea, I would like to comment on the BBC inserting undercover reporters in a student trip. The reality is that if one of the undercover reporters had been discovered, everyone on the trip would have been in jeopardy…
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/letters/playing-with-fire/2003724.article| (£)
UKIP and the reasons for its new popularity
The Times, 09/05/2013, p.25,
Letter from Alan Sked, Professor of International History, LSE. “The Tories will have to be as ruthless with Cameron as they were with Thatcher if they mean to win the next election. If he will not legislate for an immediate in-out referendum on the EU, he must be replaced by someone who will.”
Moscow's spin doctor out of a job
The Times, 09/05/2013, p.29, Helen Womack
Mr Surkov, who said during a recent visit to the London School of Economics that Russia needed to diversify from "military equipment, raw materials and power and innovate", did not immediately comment on his departure.
'Grey cardinal' of the Kremlin is forced out of government
The Guardian, 09/05/2013, p.24, Miriam Elder Moscow
Markin attacked Surkov for criticising the committee during a talk last week at the London School of Economics. Surkov criticised the committee for launching a corruption investigation into Skolkovo, a government project promoted by Medvedev to build a Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/vladimir-putin-cardinal-forced-government|
A Putin adviser falls from grace
International Herald Tribune, 09/05/2013, p.4, Andrew E. Kramer
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/world/europe/vladislav-surkov-putins-
domestic-policy-aide-is-ousted.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0|
Architect of Putin's Kremlin resigns
Financial Times, 09/05/2013, p.6, Charles Clover; Neil Buckley
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40e86410-b7c6-11e2-bd62-00144feabdc0.html|
Plus ça change…
Times Higher Education,09/05/2013, p.20
“Fioraso is trying to reunite the universities that were broken up after the unrest of 1968,” explains Anne Corbett, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute. “She wants contact with just 30 groups, rather than 150 organisations, so is trying to get more universities involved in these [consortia], which is good politics.”
LSE online
Oxbridge beats world in key subjects
BBC (Web), 08/05/2013, Unattributed
UK universities dominating the global top 10 for this subject. Oxford and Cambridge take the top two places, with four other UK universities also in the global top ten: the London School of Economics (LSE), Durham, University College London (UCL) and Manchester. Oxford was judged the best place in the world to study English, while Cambridge came second, ahead of
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22447965|
Oxbridge Best In World For Seven Subjects.. Surprise Surprise
Huffington Post UK - May 8 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/07/qs-world-university-league-table-
oxford-cambridge_n_3230205.html?ir=UK+Universities+%26+Education|
il ranking qs
Il Sole 24 Ore - May 8 at 12:45 BST
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2013-05-08/classifica-universita-prima-
harvard-131040.shtml?uuid=Abq7Q3tH|
Russia's deputy prime minister quits
Telegraph (Web), 08/05/2013, Unattributed
the United States, accused one of the fund's senior executives of giving $750,000 to an opposition MP. Surkov has publicly defended the fund, saying in a recent speech at the London School of Economics that investigators should not come to any premature conclusions. Putin's spokesman said Surkov's departure should not be seen in connection with the investigation at the Skolkovo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10043694/Vladislav
-Surkov-quits-as-Russias-deputy-prime-minister.html|
Architect of Putin's political system quits
AFP 08/05/2013
Surkov publicly defended the fund in a speech this month at the London School of Economics, saying that investigators should hold their "artillery fire." The speech drew a sharp rebuke from the chief spokesman of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jg4Em8DB5HsNT03zoaj
_3UElqLKg?docId=CNG.57e4ee42f0afae13b609c440fd5fa2c0.271|
Russian deputy prime minister Vladislav Surkov resigns following Putin reprimand
Washington Post - May 8 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/architect-of-russias-political-
system-resigns-following-putin-reprimand/2013/05/08/d11ffdac-b804-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?wprss=rss_europe|
Putin feuert seinen Rasputin
Spiegel Online - Benjamin Bidder, Moskau - May 8 2013
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/vizepremier-surkow-putins-puppenspieler
-tritt-ab-a-898892.html|
Dimite el influyente vice primer ministro ruso Vladislav Surkov
Terra Mexico - May 8 2013
http://noticias.terra.com.mx/mundo/europa/dimite-el-influyente-vice-primer-
ministro-ruso-vladislav-surkov,86d9bf069748e310VgnCLD2000000dc6eb0aRCRD.html|
Russie: le stratège du système politique de Poutine jette l'éponge
TV5 - May 8 2013
Is 'lad culture' causing a surge in student feminist societies?
guardian.co.uk (Web), 08/05/2013, Emily Hilton
" ’I think it's really important for feminist groups to portray a better image at being inclusive, with a more broad definition of what it means to be a feminist,’ says Ariella Silberstein, a Jewish student at the London School of Economics (LSE).”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/08/lad-culture-student-feminism|
‘Don’t be afraid to lead from the front’
Hindustan Times - May 8 2013
university.” Husain, who has previously lectured at Harvard, Oxford University and the London School of Economics, points at the irony that while she herself could not manage a university degree — given her early marriage — today her strategies...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/corporatenews/Don-t-be-
afraid-to-lead-from-the-front/Article1-1057027.aspx|
Francois Hollande's Really Bad Year
Bloomberg - Tim Judah - May 8 2013
professor of practice in European politics at the European Institute of the London School of Economics.What went wrong for Hollande?A big part of his problem is the French Socialist Party, which never underwent the kind of modernization that...
Meet 10 powerful women (and men) working part-time
Yahoo! UK and Ireland - May 8 2013
Away from Climate Bridge, Cameron Hepburn is a highly respected academic at the London School of Economics and Oxford University, holds various government advisory roles, is director and co-founder of Vivid Economics, and is dad to one-year-old James.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-10-powerful-women-men-13520
1729.html|
Magic realism in North Korea
Korea Times - May 8 2013
controversy because it was alleged that Sweeney had endangered a group of London School of Economics students he was traveling with to North Korea by posing as a doctoral student and failing to tell them that he was using the tour as a...
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2013/05/396_135344.html|
Anti-immigration party makes big gains in UK
IndiaPost - May 8 2013
the machine,” said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. “It is a traditional midterm protest vote and it’s found its lightning conductor through UKIP,” Travers said. “However...
http://www.indiapost.com/anti-immigration-party-makes-big-gains-in-uk/|
Thatcher's legacy in Canada
Toronto Star Online - Susan Delacourt - May 8 2013
pioneered by Margaret Scammell , a lecturer in media and communications at the London School of Economics. And just last week again, another expert in this field, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, was talking to me about Thatcher...
http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2013/04/thatchers-legacy-in-canada.html|
Was die typischen UBS-, CS- oder Goldman-Banker ausmacht (translate)
Finews.ch - May 8 at 11:12 BST
konnte «eFinancialcareers» bei 9 Prozent einen Abschluss von Oxford, Cambridge oder der London School of Economics nachzeichnen, und ebenfalls bei 9 Prozent einen Abschluss bei einer der amerikanischen Ivy-League-Universitäten. 25 Prozent (!) erwähnen...
http://www.finews.ch/news/banken/11824-was-die-typischen-ubs-cs-oder
-goldman-banker-ausmacht|
Konec celoevropského eura v dohledu?
Aktuálnì.cz - May 8 2013
mne Sidebar Alexander Tomský Politolog a nakladatel. Po studiích mezinárodních vztahů na London School of Economics a tomistické filosofie na London Institute of Education pracoval jako politolog v ústavu Keston College, kde se specializoval...
http://blog.aktualne.centrum.cz/blogy/alexander-tomsky.php?itemid=19884|