Lecturers up in arms at the quango that escaped the bonfire
From April university staff will be compelled to pay an annual membership fee of £68 – a cost previously picked up by government – to the Institute for Learning.
Quangos
Bonfire of the quangos “rushed and poorly handled” says Tory MP
A cross-party commons committee has argued that the government’s process of scrapping quangos has been “botched”, reports Chris Tarquini.
The coalition’s cancer muddle
Previously when a cancer drug was put to NICE for appraisal there was a strong incentive for the drug company to offer a decent NHS-wide price that might be accepted as value for money. Indeed NHS drug prices are generally very competitive.
Localism or a postcode lottery?
The ‘bonfire of quangos’ may or may not lead to centralisation or deregulation depending on circumstance.
The quangos start to burn
The government has lit the touch paper to start the ‘bonfire of the quangos’ today in announcing that it will axe nearly 200 quangos, reports Katy Mughan.
Cutting red tape? More like axing the green economy
The Government is abolishing15 environmental bodies, blowing another hole in its claim to be ‘the greenest government ever’, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Sustainable development? So far, it’s mostly been slash-and-burn
The bonfire of the quangos is in full swing, and the Government has started to throw green wood onto the rising flames.
Mail’s quango deception
The Daily Mail this morning falsely and maliciously lied about the cost of quangos.
Cameron’s quango plans unlikely to result in any cost savings
David Cameron’s speech today was billed as a “bonfire of the quangos.” But Cameron’s poor examples of which quangos would be reformed and the list of new quangos that he hopes to create suggest that little cost savings will result from the plans.