2/29/2008 9:36:00 AM
Anthea Lipsett Thursday February 28, 2008 The Guardian
The UK's seven research councils have openly rejected proposals to replace the system for judging research quality. Research Councils UK (RCUK), which represents all the discipline-specific councils, told the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) that its proposals to replace the research assessment exercise with a statistics-based "metrics" system were "not acceptable to RCUK in their current form". The new system - the research excellence framework (REF) - would rely more heavily on statistics and treat the sciences and arts and humanities separately. The sciences will be assessed on bibliometrics, which measures the extent to which research papers are cited by other publications, while arts and humanities will retain an element of peer review - where academics judge each other's work. But the research councils, which invest around £4bn each year in university research, said it would prefer to see a single system for all subjects, including peer review.Guardian
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