Give it time for the government to continue cutting funding and complaining about how inefficient our universities and research are, despite their results being pretty much the best in the world given how relatively starved of funding they are and we'll soon change this.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/p...search-funding
A government minister embracing deeper cuts to his department. There's looking after your portfolio.
What has been highlighted, though, is a good example of why the government shouldn't have meddled with education. If our universities are so good clearly the schools and colleges feeding those universities weren't doing so badly prior to Gove getting obsessed over 'rigour' and perhaps didn't need the massive wholesale reforms that have made my wife want to leave the profession having had over a decade of excellent results and outcomes.