Yes of course this is serious, and founded on a curious philosophy.
the split moves largely between old and new Universities.
There could be room for creative re-associaiotn acros subjects but that would, if attractive, provide only a marginal response.
The issue must be one of whether a good teaching institution/department can do without research
there needs to be separate funding for noew and old univs on distinct criteria.- and I dont mean between good research and bad research either!
There needs to be a serious debate about these issues as the ones moving the rae at present seem outdated and elitist, not by research quality but my other criteria.
These are a few brief crumbs but I wont take up too much time now.
David
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Dear all,
Have just read HEFCE's recent decision on RAE funding
and am now becoming fully aware of the implications it
has for staff working in Departments of 3a and below.
Do we have anything to say on this? It would seem to
me that, without being fully aware, the last RAE was
about marking out the boundaries between either
teaching or research and teaching institutions. This I
think has very serious implications for supposedly
non-research departments in the long term (student
recruitment could become increasingly difficult) and
for those research staff employed on short term/fixed
contracts. I suspect there are going to be a lot of
(invisible) redundancies in the very near future.
Yours a contract researcher with six months to go and
working in a 3a department!!
Tim Brown
Geography of Health
University of Portsmouth
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