Proposal to make Scottish colleges exempt from independence rule

By Mathew Little, Third Sector Online, 23 May 2008

The Scottish government has introduced measures to grant further education colleges an exemption to the rule that charities should be independent of government.

An order laid before the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday will come into force later this year if approved by MSPs. The plans follow a ruling last year by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator that ministerial powers to direct further education colleges were incompatible with the requirement in the...

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