University Alliance report shows that selectivity, not concentration, has driven excellence in UK research
…y Alliance, Libby Aston, said: “Future policy on research concentration has seemed a little uncertain since RAE 2008 results demonstrated that peaks of world-leading research excellence were distributed more widely than had been anticipated. The evidence, however, remains very clear: selectivity not concentration has driven excellence in UK research; excellence is not determined by volume alone; and it is the peaks of world-leading research excell…