Government promises to slash red tape in higher education

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(2003), "Government promises to slash red tape in higher education", Education + Training, Vol. 45 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2003.00445fab.002

Government promises to slash red tape in higher education

Government promises to slash red tape in higher education

Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education Minister Margaret Hodge has accepted the recommendations of the better-regulation task force's report, Higher Education: Easing the Burden, and pledged to go beyond them in a bid to slash unnecessary bureaucracy in higher education. "We must slash burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy in higher education," she said. "Some of the recommendations have already been implemented. Others have been superseded, but I am determined to make further progress. That is why I have asked Professor David VandeLinde to lead a new group, succeeding the higher-education forum, which will tackle bureaucracy in higher education. The better-regulation task force report is a starting-point, but I believe the VandeLinde group will be able to slash bureaucracy further and make the sector even more efficient."

David Arculus, who chaired the better-regulation task force, said: "This is an excellent response. We particularly welcome the creation of the review group headed by David VandeLinde. There is a real need for a single body to take an overview of the burden on the sector and work to reduce it. But it is just as important to stem the flow of unnecessary new burdens, so we are pleased that government has committed itself to ensuring that any new proposals likely to impose burdens on higher-education institutions will be accompanied by assessments of their likely impact."