“The Higher Education Funding Council for England would be scrapped under plans laid out in the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto, published today. The funding council is described in the document as a ‘wasteful quango’, and would be merged with the Skills Funding Agency to form a single Council for Adult Skills and Higher Education if the Lib Dems gain the keys to power on 6 May …” (more)
[Melanie Newman, Times Higher Education, 14 April]