The Impact of Research Assessment and Teaching-Quality Exercises on the UK University System

Peter Sloane

Chapter 5 in Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes in Europe, 2004, pp 109-126 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Historically, decisions relating to resource allocation in British universities were largely left to the universities themselves,1 but in the 1980s the Conservative government attempted to introduce accountability and performance measurement into the public sector and this also applied to the universities. This involved not only selectivity in the distribution of resources but also rationalisation and, where appropriate, the closure of small departments, firmer financial control and attempts to improve the standard of teaching (Cave and Weale, 1992). Two reasons for this intervention were suggested in a 1991 white paper, Higher Education: A New Framework, namely the considerable growth in student numbers and the development of competition among institutions as a result of changes to the funding mechanism.

Keywords: Research Rating; Academic Staff; Research Assessment; Attainable Level; Research Assessment Exercise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230522657_5

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