Sunday, 12 February 2012

Tories up pressure on Vince Cable over new university access tsar

Conservative MPs will this week step up their campaign to stop the Government's proposed appointment of a controversial don as the new university tsar.



Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has proposed that Professor Les Ebdon becomes the head of the Office for Fair Access.

Professor Ebdon has threatened "nuclear" penalties for universities failing to meet targets to increase the number of students from working-class backgrounds.

However, Professor Ebdon, the vice-chancellor of

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