Libya and the London School of Economics: When civil-societyism fronts for barbarism http://www.tni.org/article/libya-and-london-school-economics-when-civil-societyism-fronts-barbarism

Similar damage was caused at the London School of Economics (LSE), now considered just as much of a supermarket school for Libyan brats, as Oxford and Cambridge are for other Middle Eastern tyrants’ kids, especially with new revelations about Saif’s purchased, plagiarised, ghost-written and obviously unsupervised, unexamined doctoral thesis.Many institutions are guilty of selling favours to the rich and powerful, or in the case of my own institution, Durban’s University of KwaZulu-Natal, of being conveniently asleep at the academic wheel. In 2003, our mechanical engineering department awarded a doctorate to South Africa’s top arms dealer, Shamim Chippy Shaik, responsible a decade ago for US$9 billion of arms deal procurements and hence a great deal of the country’s subsequent political rot, including a $3 million bribe to the Shaik family from German firm Thyssen, as was revealed last September.