Recommendation(s): 36

Recommendation 36: We recommend to the Government that institutions of higher education should be represented on the regional bodies which it establishes, and that the Further Education Funding Council regional committees should include a member from higher education.

6.1 The Government published its White Paper on the English Regions on 3 December 1997. This set out arrangements for the new Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). It contained proposals for people from higher education to apply to be represented on the RDA Boards. DfEE is in the process of securing higher education membership on the Regional Committees of the Further Education Funding Council. This will help to tie higher education firmly into the regional economic agenda and so enable it to make a greater strategic contribution.

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