David Cameron is reported to have made a dramatic intervention in the university reforms, shelving the higher education bill that was due this spring. According to the Times Higher Education, the bill, which would have introduced major regulatory reform including new legislation making it easier for private providers to enter the market, is now unlikely be published before 2015. The Telegraph says that the intervention by Mr Cameron was the result not only of disquiet among his Liberal Democrat colleagues, but a lack of appetite for further controversial reforms of public services following the bruising battle over the restructuring of the NHS.
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