LSE in print
Never empower people who hate freedom
The Times, 16/10/2013, p.31, Daniel Finkelstein
Article focusing on the LSESU ASH Society T-shirt debate.
“When I first came to the LSE as an undergraduate I was surprised to find that, in such a political place, there wasn't a debating society. I decided to set one up.”
Another trip to the [...]
The Guardian, 16/10/2013, p.33, Hugh Muir
Galloway returned hostilities. Later he derided one undergrad critic as a "hapless young fellow", Gordon Brown as an "unfortunate interregnum" and dismissed the LSE as the Libyan School of Economics. Back and forth, the live blog fizzles. The student newspaper reports virtually write themselves.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/15/hugh-muir-diary-get-the-hell-out-texts|
Sharing the load
The Guardian, 16/10/2013, p.38, David Brindle
Trowler joined Camden council, in north London, where she became assistant director for adult social care and joint commissioning. Trowler, 46, qualified at the LSE and worked for a variety of voluntary and statutory bodies, most notably Kensington and Chelsea, and Hackney councils, in London. It was at Hackney, where she became assistant director.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/16/social-work-adult-child-leadership|
Joan Thirsk obituary
guardian.co.uk (Web), 15/10/2013, Unattributed
1942 to 1945, where she met her future husband, Jimmy, a librarian. A convert to history, after the war, she embarked on a PhD supervised by RH Tawney at the London School of Economics. She was appointed in 1951 to a research fellowship in the department of English local history at the University of Leicester, where she worked on Lincolnshire, and
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/joan-thirsk|
LSE online
Prof John Hills: It's fun being a tsar
SocietyGuardian - news, comment and analysis on the public and voluntary sectors | theguardian.com - Jane Dudman - Oct 15 at 8:28 BST
(…) John Hills, professor of social policy at the LSE, says the word 'tsar' is wildly inappropriate. Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Between May 1997 and July...
http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/oct/15/john-hills-lse-fun-tsar-adviser|
L'économie, l'atout toulousain
Le Monde - Oct 15 at 15:51 BST
matière -, elle n'est guère devancée en Europe que par la London School of Economics et la faculté d'économie d'Oxford. Elle est notamment en pointe pour les questions d'économie industrielle...
http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2013/10/15/l-economie-l-atout-toulousain_3496135_1473685.html|
Laura Vanessa Muñoz: Los medios de comunicación y la democracia
Huffpost Voces - Laura Vanessa Muñoz - Oct 15 at 21:14 BST
Marianna Lara Otaola, recién graduada de la Maestría en Política Comparativa de London School of Economics y en su trabajo de titulación realizó un estudio sobre cómo los medios de comunicación...
http://voces.huffingtonpost.com/laura-vanessa-munoz/medios-de-comunicacion-y-democracia_b_4094290.html|
Chinese colleges caught between politics and raising global profile
Today Online - Oct 15 at 22:48 BST
A growing list of other colleges and universities, including Cornell, Yale and the London School of Economics, have established dual-degree programmes or enhanced academic collaboration. Peking...
http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/china/chinese-colleges-caught-between-politics-and-raising-global-profile|
America's Children Are The Silent Victims Of The Great Recession
Business Insider - Miles Corak - Oct 15 at 21:10 BST
Brooks-Gunn , William Schneider and Jane Waldfogel , researchers at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, shows that the drop in consumer confidence beginning in 2007 is associated...
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-children-are-the-silent-victims-of-the-great-recession-2013-10|
Make a link between mental and physical health services
Health Service Journal - Lawrence Moulin - Oct 16 at 0:54 BST
An analysis by the Centre for Mental Health and the London School of Economics indicated a cost-to-benefit ratio of more than £4 for every £1 invested, and further analyses have...
http://www.hsj.co.uk/home/innovation-and-efficiency/make-a-link-between-mental-and-physical-health-services/5063727.article?referrer=RSS#.Ul5HeSJwbGg|
FLASHBACK: Human species ‘may split in two’
Knowledge Wealth Centre - admin - Oct 16 at 0:03 BST
HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said – before a decline due...
http://robertmijas.com/blog/flashback-human-species-may-split-in-two/|
Exercise as good as medicine for some killer diseases
Oman Observer - Oman Observer - Oct 15 at 18:00 BST
The outcome of a metaepidemiological study conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics and Harvard Medical School, among others. The research team led by Huseyin Naci published...
http://main.omanobserver.om/?p=21589|
‘Sanctimonious little prigs’: Richard Dawkins wades into row as LSE atheist society ‘banned from wearing satirical Jesus and Prophet Mohamed T-shirts’
Euro-Islam: News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America - Euro-Islam - Oct 15 at 20:19 BST
The London School of Economics is embroiled in an increasingly bitter fight over free speech, after members of its atheist society were forced to cover up satirical T-shirts depicting Jesus and Prophet...
http://www.euro-islam.info/2013/10/15/sanctimonious-little-prigs-richard-dawkins-wades-row-lse-atheist-society-banned-wearing-satirical-jesus-prophet-mohamed-t-shirts/|
An Interview with Jesus and Mo | CEMB forum
Planet Atheism - Richard Dawkins Foundation - Oct 15 at 22:53 BST
The London School of Economics Student Union excelled itself once again this month when it harassed and intimidated two students who were wearing Jesus and Mo t-shirts during Fresher’s week. Read...
http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/10/15/an-interview-with-jesus-and-mo-cemb-forum|
Why ethical investments are beating the non-ethical
What Investment - David Thorpe 11 Oct - Oct 15 at 21:20 BST
Recent research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and London School of Economics suggests that investors in carbon-intensive businesses could see $6 trillion wasted in...
http://www.whatinvestment.co.uk/investing-in-assets/alternative-investments/2412262/why-ethical-investments-are-beating-the-nonethical.thtml|
Professor Rob Farr, 1937-2013
Planète Psychologie - Nikos Kalampalikis - Oct 16 at 5:16 BST
The Department of Social Psychology is very sad to announce the death of Emeritus Professor Rob Farr, on Friday the 11 October 2013. Rob Farr joined the LSE in 1983 as Professor of Social Psychology and was instrumental in building up the Department of...
LSE on TV/radio
News
BBC Tees, 16/10/2013
Tony Travers speaks about local council service provision.