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Tories threaten to cull college quangos

By David Turner in Birmingham

Published: November 19 2009 23:03 | Last updated: November 19 2009 23:03

The Conservatives would merge the plethora of government agencies that supervise college education into only three under the latest Tory proposal to rein in quangos.

Comments by David Willetts, shadow secretary for universities and skills, add to the increasingly loud cries from Westminster in recent months for a “bonfire of the quangos”.

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