Conditions that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies
Higher Education Bill
10:30 am
Mr Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
My hon. Friend is making an extremely powerful point. We must be aware that there are lessons from elsewhere in public services, where an
unintended consequence of reform has been that individual institutions are subject to multiple inspections for different reasons within their overall remit. The bureaucratic burdens that that creates within the institution are enormous. Does he agree that there is a risk in creating the interfaces that he describes of universities having effectively to do much more administratively, to face in a different direction, as they will be asked to do?