Modern languages ‘sold short by REF’

The merger of seven subpanels into a single one for modern languages and linguistics has skewed results, claim scholars

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August 26, 2015
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February 16, 2017
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Switched off: languages academics feel harshly judged in the REF
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Reader's comments (3)

#1 Submitted by Charles Hedges on August 31, 2015 - 3:46pm
I challenge Professors Bojars and Segal to defend the REF as anything other than the farcical tool of a government happy to change the rules in order to distribute funds as it chooses, under the spurious pretence of "objectivity"
#2 Submitted by jmw234@... on September 9, 2015 - 2:31pm
Readers may be interested in a response to this article which appears on the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) website: http://www.ucml.ac.uk/news/277
#3 Submitted by jmw234@... on September 11, 2015 - 3:10pm
Why so negative? The THE has also published a response (from the Chairs of sub panel 28) countering its interpretation of the survey in such negative tones. See: https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/letters/why-so-negative

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