Research Fortnight: All assessment systems come at a price
…approach are the universities that receive the lion’s share of the funding. Institutional-level assessment would make their share grow even larger. This would not help the government’s aim of creating a dynamic research base. Allocating funds on the basis of scale or track record would disadvantage new challengers. It is better to have a system where every institution has to stay on its toes. Universal staff submissions would also bring administr…