Jonathan Shaw writes (“Adapt to survive”, 6 June) that there is “no cross-Whitehall … executive training” for the British civil service. On Monday this week (8 June) the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and London School of Economics (LSE) director Craig Calhoun launched a new Civil Service and LSE Executive Master of Public Policy degree, to be run out of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs. We are optimistic that this programme, which will have its first