Removing Quality Management dashboard widgets

Is there a way to globally remove some of the default widgets that appear in a personal dashboard.
We have a network that blocks all internet connections from coming or going through our corporate firewall.
This restriction means that every time a user logs into the QM web UI, some of the users dashboard default widgets which are configured to automatically feed on internet links return the message There was a problem loading the feed.

We could ask every user to simply remove the widget from their own personal dashboard after they login but there should be a quicker and more efficient means of removing these widgets through a global setting or global template.