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Consolidate cabinet portfolios? <\/strong>The columnist writing under the pseudonym Newton for Al Masry Al Youm<\/a> argues that a streamlined cabinet would make sense \u2014 and result in a more efficient government. He suggests, as an example, that the antiquities, tourism and (quite randomly) civil aviation ministries could all be rolled into the culture ministry \u2014 or that the education ministry could have responsibility for K-12, higher ed, technical \/ vocational training and scientific research.<\/p>\n

(We\u2019re not certain we\u2019re with Newton on this one: We like to think we know a thing or two about management, but sometimes struggle running two small businesses \u2014 hardly creatures as large as government ministries and all the authorities and agencies falling under them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consolidate cabinet portfolios? The columnist writing under the pseudonym Newton for Al Masry Al Youm argues that a streamlined cabinet would make sense \u2014 and result in a more efficient government. 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