Apologies for cross-posting
This document has just been posted on the web (01/61).
It seems to confirm the 'word on the street' that HEFCE will use 1996 grades but 2001 volume data to allocate QR for 2002-03. (I understand HEFCE officials made a statement at last week's data seminars to the effect that this would go to the November HEFCE Board).
Has anyone else worked out what to do about staff or research groups supervising research students who have moved UoA between 1996 and 2001? If we assume students should follow staff, then the students should also logically move.
But if the UoA into which they have been moved was ungraded in 1996 (or lower graded than the one they have moved into), then surely institutions in such a position will lose money in 2002-03, at least until the new grades come into effect sometime in the next decade.
Doesn't seem very fair!
I haven't even begun to think about students crossing UoAs, or supervised by non-returned members of staff.
The circular seems strangely silent on guidance or safeguards to funding - almost as if data collection had nothing to do with funding policy! (as if ...!)
Anyone else share these concerns?
Mike Milne-Picken
Head of Planning & Performance Review
University of Central Lancashire
PRESTON
PR1 2HE
Tel: +44 (0)1772 892391
Fax: +44 (0)1722 892943
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www.uclan.ac.uk/planning
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