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Month: September 2022

  • Book Review of Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

    2 September 2022 by Daniel Dipper

    This review was written by Daniel Dipper. Daniel is going into his third year of studying History and Politics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and is the current Oxford Union Librarian as well as Magdalen’s undergraduate president. Daniel was educated in a state comprehensive school and is the first in…

  • Politicians have opted to drive a big wedge between teaching and research (in England) – so why is research funding still linked to the tuition fee cap?

    1 September 2022 by Nick Hillman

    TD;LR What is the best answer to this question: why can’t institutions move from the highly regulated Approved (fee cap) category at the Office for Students to the also tightly regulated Approved category and still receive ‘Quality Related’ research funding? For many years, I’ve been screaming into the void (or so…

  • Research Evaluation: Past, present and future

    1 September 2022 by Dr Laura Brassington (editor)

    On the back of REF 2021, this collection brings together a wide range of authors to consider what has worked well in evaluation of UK research, what could have worked better and where we should go from here. The collection has been edited by Dr Laura Brassington and the chapters…

  • The past, present and future of research assessment

    1 September 2022

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published a new collection of pieces entitled Research Evaluation: Past, present and future (HEPI Report 152), edited by Dr Laura Brassington. The dozen different authors consider the origins of UK research evaluation, the outcome of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and options for…