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.
The Government is abolishing15 environmental bodies, blowing another hole in its claim to be ‘the greenest government ever’, reports Guy Shrubsole.
The bonfire of the quangos is in full swing, and the Government has started to throw green wood onto the rising flames.
The Daily Mail this morning falsely and maliciously lied about the cost of quangos.
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.