A Welsh Government scheme to make use of universities to kick-start the fight against the recession has stalled because none of the proposals have met the grade, this morning’s Western Mail has reported.
The Education Minister Jane Hutt had announced the £2m economic support initiative a few months ago and hoped that projects would be up and running this month. However, the Higher Education Funding Council in Wales decided that the five submitted schemes were not good enough.
Both the universities concerned and HEFCW appear to be talking at cross purposes in the article and the sort of joint working that is necessary to get things moving looks to be missing. Is it not about time the Education Minister knocked some heads together?
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