Dutch end ‘one-sided’ research focus and hope world follows

Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive ‘emphasis on research performance’

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December 3, 2019
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Measuring off proposals in the Netherlands include a rolling back of metrics

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There should be more flexibility in academic careers, but not only for teachers within the universities. Researchers also have had their careers stopped by other life-family-career decisions, and have come back to do research often more and with better quality than within the universities. It is a scandal of block-head thinking in management for teaching and research employment.

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