“There is something bizarre about taking the conditions of an IT start-up firm and thinking (that) you can run a hospital or a university that way.”
Richard Sennett, a professsor at the London School of Economics, says Labour has been “seduced” into imposing a short-term view on the public sector, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (Feb 10)
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“Major hospitals are a bit like battleships 100 years ago — they made the public feel safer though they cost a packet.”
Michael White, The Guardian’s political editor, writing in Health Service Journal (Feb 9)
“I think (that) this is probably the highest number of police officers there is likely to be.”
The number of officers in England and Wales could be cut by up to 10,000 to pay for better IT systems, says Sir Chris Fox, the outgoing president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, in Police Review (Feb 10)
“If the (Charity) Commission is principally a regulator, I’m not convinced that it should be producing aspirational guidance.”
Stuart Etherington, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, thinks that the Charity Commission should stick to regulating and not issue voluntary governance standards, in Third Sector (Feb 8)
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“Competition works if you are buying a washing machine but not if you’re waiting for a bus.”
Jonathan Bray, the assistant director of the Passenger Transport Executive Support Unit, welcomes news that bus operators could be allowed to collaborate, in Planning (Feb 10)