Taxpayer Footing £1 Million Bill for Students to “Touch As a Mole”

The National Audit Office released a scathing report into UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the bloated quango dishing out billions of taxpayer cash a year on research projects. The watchdog raised red flags over its ability to prevent fraud and questioned whether it’s delivering bang for the public buck, citing a lack of “measurable objectives” that’s made it hard to track progress at a strategic level.[…] Read the rest