The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published its recommendations on the nature and structure of the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework, the successor to the RAE:
Consultation on the development of the REF
The consultation runs until the 16th December.
We’ll publish more when we’ve had a chance to digest the document, but at first glance it [...]
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HEFCE Launches REF Consultation
Research Excellence Framework: “RAE with numbers”?
The Times Higher has just published a very interesting and informative analysis of the REF (Research Excellence Framework), the replacement for the RAE:
Structural Adjustments – The REF Unscrambled
This detailed article is effectively the “story so far” of the REF, the next generation of one half of the dual support system. It’s important because the REF [...]
RAE Funding Revealed: Lincoln to get £1.9M
HEFCE today revealed to the public the funding allocations based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Thanks to a significantly improved result in the recent RAE, as well as an expansion of its research base since 2001, University of Lincoln will see its funding increase to £1.9 million per annum from 2009-2010. This is up [...]
RAE Roadshows at Lincoln
From the staff message list (and also blogged at The Winch):
Following the University’s recent success in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Professor Andrew Hunter and I are holding three RAE Roadshows. All academic and support staff are invited to attend to learn more about, and discuss, the RAE outcome and future plans for research [...]
HEFCE Announces RAE Funding Formula
After over a month of speculation in the HE sector, HEFCE have announced the formula they will use to determine how QR (Quality Related) research funding is distributed. QR is around £1.1bn per year and is allocated to universities on the basis of their results in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
The headline is that HEFCE [...]
RAE 2008 Results Published: Lincoln Shows Vast Improvement
The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise have been released by the UK HE Funding Councils. They are now available on the RAE website:
RAE 2008 Publications
Results are sorted by Unit of Assessment (subject area) and a “quality profile” is given for each institution for each UoA. This shows two things: a) how many staff [...]
