Discussion of whether the data should be available aside... why is drop
down "By unit of assessment" list ordered by number rather than
alphabetically by name? Does anyone really have the unit numbers
memorised in their head? Ok, so, if you're say, a Chemistry department,
you might know that Chemistry is 18, but what if you happen to also be
interested in Physics, or Chemical Engineering? At least if it was
alphabetical everyone would always be able to find what they were looking
for.
Kat
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kevin Scott wrote:
| With apologies for cross-posting.
|
| >From Friday 12 July 2001 the full dataset for the RAE 2001 will be
| available online at http://www.hero.ac.uk/rae. From that date the existing
| RAE site at http://www.rae.ac.uk will be re-pointed to this page.
|
| This means that for the first time, the detailed submission data is being
| made publicly available. The online database has been designed to allow
| this very substantial resource to be searched in a range of ways, for
| example by Institution or subject group. The work has been undertaken
| jointly by HEFCE and HERO.
|
| We intend to publicise the launch fairly broadly through the press, our
| own contact database and other channels, with HEFCE taking a lead role
| with the media. Can we ask you to join in this process and ensure that the
| message gets to as wide an audience as possible. Can we also ask that any
| links you have from your site to the original RAE database are changed to
| the new url http://www.hero.ac.uk/rae
|
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