Education officials are at it too – expenses, that is!

Not all the attention on expenses has been limited to MPs.   There have been some examples of “luxury” expenses claimed by local government officials and by officials of quangos.

Now Nick Seaton, who leads the Campaign for Real Education, and is himself a member of CES, has written this piece on Conservative Home.

Nick says the behaviour of quango and council chiefs shows their disregard for the taxpayer.

He highlights the £100 million claimed by universities for lost students who they fail to recruit or who drop out, and the astonishing case of Sussex Downs College whose £8 million refurbishment was turned into a proposed £175 million rebuild when Learning and Skills Council officials told the College Principal it was a “once in a lifetime opportunity”.

National newspapers have reported claims by council chief executives for chauffeurs, food and travel.   The chief executive of the Teacher Training and Development Agency spent £3,000 on a leadership conference in Rome, and flew to Melbourne for an education conference, spending £5,820 on business class flights without his other expenses whilst there.   Nice work if you can get it!

And there’s more in Nick’s article.