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  The research assessment debacle is verging on the scandalous

  Oct 30 2008:

  Alasdair Smith: There are no good arguments for suppression, only that institutions look more credible if the high proportion of their academic staff not submitted to the RAE go undetected

• Blunder lets universities 'hide' poor researchers in rankings

  Oct 30 2008:

  Research league tables abandoned just six weeks before the results of the Research Assessment Exercise

• Which way for higher education?

  Aug 28 2008:

  Why did the Dius debate on HE never really get started?

• Overuse of metrics to judge research criticised

  Jul 18 2008:

  The president of the British Academy has warned against the government's plans to judge research using statistical analysis alone saying it risks producing "unintelligent forms of accountability"

• Research councils reject new assessment system

  Feb 28 2008:

  The UK's seven research councils have openly rejected proposals to replace the system for judging research quality

• Academy unhappy about arts research timetable

  Feb 15 2008:

  Decision on how quality of research in the humanities and social sciences will be judged after this year's RAE should be brought forward, says British Academy

• Backing peer review

  Feb 12 2008:

  Academics all over the UK are calling for a delay to the government's new research evaluation system. Anthea Lipsett and Natasha Gilbert report

• Research rankings 'to include staff data'

  Feb 5 2008:

  Vice-chancellors are believed to have agreed to allow data on the proportion of staff submitted to the 2008 research assessment exercise to be published alongside the results

• Institute criticises proposed RAE replacement

  Dec 13 2007:

  The new system proposed to judge research quality in the UK will fail to produce detailed information on research, the Higher Education Policy Institute has warned

• Funding council unveils plans for assessing future research

  Nov 22 2007:

  The current 67 subject areas currently used to assess research will be reduced to a handful of broad categories, says Hefce

• Report: bibliometrics could distort research assessment

  Nov 9 2007:

  The use of bibliometrics could end up skewing the data used to judge research quality, an influential report has warned.

• We should abolish the RAE altogether

  Nov 6 2007:

  Geoffrey Alderman: I was once a supporter of the research assessment exercise, but in the long-term it has created an obsession with performance, resulting in many universities no longer appointing faculty on teaching ability.

• The science of funding

  Oct 30 2007:

  Who will win and who will lose in the imminent decision on research grants? Natasha Gilbert and Anthea Lipsett survey the battle into 2008 and beyond.

• Q&A: Understanding the RAE

  Oct 30 2007:

  As we approach the deadline for RAE 2008 submissions, Anthea Lipsett explains the background to the exercise.

• Peer review unmatched by metrics

  Oct 30 2007:

  Jonathan Adams: Using metrics to assess research will alienate researchers unless the process is simple and meaningful.

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