A mantra for the next REF cycle? Keep calm and carry on

We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon

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January 21, 2016
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January 21, 2016
James Wilsdon
Miles Cole illustration (21 January 2016)
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#1 Submitted by Dash Hammett on January 22, 2016 - 8:32pm
The problem is the 'we' with which this piece is peppered. Who are the 'we' ? The REF works for some to the detriment of others in the universities subject to or complicit in it. There is not a unity of interests generally in universities in England nor in relation to the REF. There is no 'we'.

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