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Graham Perrin

HEFCE : Publications : 2009 : 2009/38 : Research Excellence Framework - Second consultation... - 0 views

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United Kingdom higher education research funding Research Excellence Framework Research Assessment Exercise Higher Education Funding Council for England

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  • September 2009
  • Consultation
  • Research Excellence Framework
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  • Second consultation on the assessment and funding of research
  • proposals for
  • the new arrangements for the assessment and funding
  • research in UK higher education institutions
  • Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
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  • replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)

  • Executive summary



    Purpose



    1.   This document sets out

    proposals for the Research Excellence Framework (REF)

  • Key points
  • The proposals build on a pilot exercise
  • lessons drawn from the 2008 RAE
  • The Research Excellence Framework: a brief guide to the proposals
  • shortly to be made available on the web at www.hefce.ac.uk/ref
  • We invite responses from HEIs and other groups and organisations with an interest
  • Action required
  • Responses to the consultation should be made
  • by midday on Wednesday 16 December 2009
Graham Perrin

HEFCE : Research : Research Excellence Framework (REF) - 0 views

www.hefce.ac.uk/ref

United Kingdom higher education research funding Research Excellence Framework Research Assessment Exercise Higher Education Funding Council for England 2009 2010 2013

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  • Research Excellence Framework
  • About the REF
  • the new system for assessing the quality of research
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  • We will issue guidance on the REF in 2010
  • The first REF exercise is due to be completed in 2013
  • collaboration with the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, the Department for Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland), and with a wide range of stakeholders
  • Assessing research quality
  • three elements
  • Outputs

    The primary focus of the REF will be to identify excellent research of all kinds.
  • expert review, informed by citation information
  • robust data
  • Impact

    Significant additional recognition will be given where researchers build on excellent research
  • demonstrable benefits
  • economy, society, public policy, culture and quality of life.
  • case-study approach
  • Environment

    The REF will take account of the quality of the research environment
  • continuing flow
  • excellent research
  • dissemination and application
  • Consultation 2009
  • 23 September to 16 December 2009
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Times Higher Education - RAE 2008: The results - 1 views

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Research Assessment Exercise Times Higher Education United Kingdom higher education research funding analysis unread

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  • The research-intensive university that shot highest up the table was Queen Mary, University of London (from 48th in 2001 to 13th). It was followed by the University of Nottingham (37th to 24th). The universities of Loughborough, Leeds and Exeter also put in strong performances as rising stars among research-intensive institutions.
  • strong performances
  • Among the traditionally non-research-intensive universities
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  • University of Hertfordshire challenged the middle-ranking universities, rising from 93rd to 58th
  • University of Brighton rose from 80th to 59th
  • Anglia Ruskin, Bournemouth and Derby
  • it is research power (a mixture of excellence and volume) that will determine funding
  • across all the types of league tables that could be constructed, "no single institution" had come out the best
  • "Business and management studies" had the most researchers submitted
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Times Higher Education - RAE 2008 proves UK research is world class - 1 views

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Research Assessment Exercise Times Higher Education United Kingdom higher education research funding

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  • former polytechnics make huge leaps
  • More than half of all the research produced by some 52,400 academics whose work was rated as part of the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE) is at least "internationally excellent"
  • the UK is among the "top rank of research powers in the world"
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  • there is excellent research to be found across the higher education sector
  • rising research stars
  • University of Hertfordshire jumped from 93rd place in 2001 to 58th
  • University of Brighton rose from 80th place in 2001 to 59th
  • University of York climbed into the top ten
  • the biggest star among the research-intensive institutions was Queen Mary, University of London, which went from 48th in 2001 to 13th in the 2008 Times Higher Education table
  • HIGH FLYERS WHO CLIMBED THE RANKINGS
  • next issue, out on 1 January, for reactions to and further analysis of the RAE 2008 results
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Times Higher Education - Leader: Raise your glass to UK research - 2 views

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Research Assessment Exercise Times Higher Education United Kingdom higher education research funding

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  • the most famous branding exercise there is for research prestige
  • nearly 90 per cent of the research submitted has been judged to be of international quality, falling into the top three grades of "world-leading", "internationally excellent" or "internationally recognised"
  • UK universities are dominant on the international stage
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  • The approach we have chosen is one that spotlights excellence wherever it is
  • Institutions are ranked for the excellence they have achieved, regardless of size
  • contextual information is included so it is easy to see who has the research power
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Times Higher Education - Jobs, funding and reputations all hinge on the impending RAE resul... - 2 views

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Research Assessment Exercise Times Higher Education United Kingdom higher education research funding

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  • The results of RAE 2008 will be published in full in Times Higher Education on 18 December
  • a four-point scale - from the top grade of 4*, through 3*, 2* to 1*
  • aggregate of quality and volume
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  • Data revealing the proportion of research-active staff submitted for the RAE
  • guidance on eligibility produced by Hefce was unclear
  • Brian Cantor, vice-chancellor of the University of York, a 1994 Group institution, writes
  • the raw scores achieved by departments will be "meaningless" if there is no indication of what proportion of staff were entered. "(The omission) has serious implications for academics as individuals and for equality of opportunity,"
  • data that could have been used as a proxy for the missing submissions data
  • Hesa's board last week agreed to supply proxy measures alongside the RAE 2008 results. This week, however, Hesa said that it could not supply these data by 18 December.
  • Readers' comments
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Times Higher Education - How can we measure the quality of research without quantity data? - 1 views

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Research Assessment Exercise Times Higher Education United Kingdom higher education research funding

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  • The lack of an intensity measure could dent confidence in the outcome of the research assessment exercise
  • It is critically important for the sector, therefore, that all stages of the process have unquestionable integrity.
  • transparency, clarity and collective agreement among stakeholders
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  • All three now appear to be at risk after the decision not to publish the proportion of eligible staff entered for assessment at each university
  • Readers' comments
  • the wider media like The Times will pick up with no acknlowledgement of why the available data are so very misleading
Graham Perrin

HEFCE : Research : REF : Impact pilot exercise - 0 views

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United Kingdom higher education research funding Research Excellence Framework Higher Education Funding Council for England

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Times Higher Education: Zoë Corbyn - 0 views

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Research Assessment Exercise

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  • Zoë Corbyn specialises in research and science policy
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      http://www.brighton.ac.uk/centrim/about/location - SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) co-located with CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management).
  • research and science policy
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RAE 2008: the results - 0 views

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Research Assessment Exercise

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RAE 2008 - 0 views

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RAOD Research Assessment Exercise

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  • The primary purpose of the RAE 2008 is to produce quality profiles
  • use the quality profiles to determine their grant for research
  • The RAE2008 results will be published on Thursday 18 December 2008
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