Like all the nationalised industries which taxpayers had to subsidise in the past, from British Coal to British Leyland, UK universities suffer from grotesque inefficiencies, low motivation, ministerial second-guessing, poor salaries, and a stifling excess of bureaucracy.
Robert Halfon, a champion of blue-collar "white-van Conservatism", was rewarded with his first ministerial job.One of Mr Cameron's first priorities is to double parents' free child-care allowance from 15 to 30 hours a week.
In his second ministerial reshuffle, David Cameron increased the number in his coalition government by four.
A second ministerial aide has quit the Government in the space of just two days.
He continued to court controversy in his second ministerial stint, notably by criticizing the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi.
However, Mr Blair was earlier hit by a second ministerial resignation ahead of today's crucial Commons debate, with Health Minister Lord Hunt announcing that he had decided to go.
With the biggest share of parliamentary seats, the SVP won a second ministerial post in Switzerland's seven-strong federal government, at the expense of the Christian Democrats.
Polls now suggest it has overtaken the Christian Democrats, the party to which Messrs Cotti and Koller both belong; so the head of the People's Party, Ueli Maurer, is clamouring for a second ministerial post.
That was followed by the second ministerial summit at Bamako [ 6] and the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research organised by the WHO/Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at Montreux in November 2010.
The Fifth Africa Regional Platform and Third Ministerial Meeting for Disaster Risk Reduction (the African DRR Platform), in Abuja, Nigeria in May 2014 (UNISDR 2014a), generated several recommendations for the third UN WCDRR in Sendai, with an emphasis on building disaster resilience.
He kept a low profile and focused on his rural constituency for his first couple of decades in politics, before receiving his first ministerial position in 1994.
