{"id":197,"date":"2010-05-27T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:58:12","slug":"the-dissolution-of-the-quangos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/05\/27\/the-dissolution-of-the-quangos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dissolution of the Quangos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new government's promise to release the creative talents of those locked into quangos has started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qcda.gov.uk\/\">QCDA<\/a>. \u00a0The Secretary of State's letter confirming this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/news\/letters\/~\/media\/Files\/lacuna\/news\/goveqcda270510.ashx\">here<\/a>. \u00a0There are two reasons, it seems to me, to applaud this: [i] it frees up schools to be creative in their own right and rediscover the energies and skills to think about curriculum for the benefit of their students; and [ii], as the admirable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seeds-Wealth-Four-Plants-that\/dp\/0330488120\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\">Henry Hobhouse<\/a> argues, just as the dissolution of the monasteries, 500 years ago, released energy and talent into the productive\u00a0economy, so will the demise of the educational quangos. \u00a0Now for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tda.gov.uk\/\">TDA<\/a> ...?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new government's promise to release the creative talents of those locked into quangos has started with QCDA. \u00a0The Secretary of State's letter confirming this is here. \u00a0There are two reasons, it seems to me, to applaud this: [i] it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}