Global metrics experts attack Liverpool redundancy criteria

The claim of transparency is clearly a lie, academics do not have access to the data used for their assessment, please challenge this account. T

One of the most inspiring, interesting, supportive, consistent and well-prepared lecturers in my UG degree published 2 things during my 4 years. I need say no more, Arthur Andersen principles are alive and well in LIverpool clearly -probably elsewhere. Business grew out of the idea of profit centred measurement years ago

What about some metrics on the management ??? ... the bloated overpaid managers and bloated bureaucracy and pay for senior bureaucrats in the UK Univesity system is a joke. Sacking the academics will only increase the imbalance . It is time to abolish the QAA, the OfS , the NSS as they are creating this bureaucratic nightmare that leads to all this needless bureaucracy.

“...are subject to collective consultation and are confidential within that process, but I can confirm they are based on transparent and measurable outputs, benchmarked against our Russell Group comparators and the relevant academic discipline. The proposed measures have been considered carefully, in line with relevant codes of practice related to the responsible use of research metrics.” This a a long-winded way of saying "f@ck off, we push it through anyway" ;)

Reading through the piece it is somewhat difficult to tell if “redundancy” is the issue or the manner in which it is (being) done. For the latter, there is so much ink spilt, the wrong way to go about redundancy, hardly any, the right way to. Perhaps the real challenge is knowing the right way(s) to do it. Basil jide fadipe