Higher education’s biggest quango is feeling the heat – could it be gobbled up just as the Potato Council once was?First they came for the British Potato Council and I did not speak out. Then they came for the British Waterways Board and I did not speak out. The British state has for so long relied on quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos for short) to accomplish its policy and delivery work,that their proliferation –followed by their axing – has begun to feel routine. There’s even a common term for the process; we call it a “bonfire of quangos”, after Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Source: theguardian.com