MPs criticise lax oversight of £1.2bn higher education expansion – UKgovernmentwatch

Last Updated: February 24, 2015By

David Willetts Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ignored repeated warnings about potential waste and abuse of public money, committee finds”, according to UKgovernmentwatch.

“Following changes introduced by the then universities minister David Willetts in 2010 that were meant to usher in a new era in higher education, private colleges – like public and a handful of private universities – were permitted to take on students funded with government-issued student loans.”

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2 Comments

  1. NMac February 24, 2015 at 4:26 pm - Reply

    Isn’t Willetts the cretin who claimed parliamentary expenses to employ someone to change electric light bulbs in his home? I just hope that at the next General Election they are consigned to the political dustbin, …which is too nice a fate for them.

  2. jeffrey davies February 24, 2015 at 4:26 pm - Reply

    wasted monies serco atos crapita a4e all these private contractors but then

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