The use of raw grant income as a performance target has got to go – now

This mendacious metric is dangerous for individuals and the sector, and bad news for the taxpayer, argues Philip Moriarty

Published on
June 18, 2015
Last updated
June 18, 2015
Eleanor Shakespeare illustration (18 June 2015)
Source: Eleanor Shakespeare

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Article originally published as: V-cs, spare us this mendacious, malign and profligate metric (18 June 2015)

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Reader's comments (2)

Ah the corporate university again. Metrics don't we love them. Quantity not quality. Bring back education for the sheer love of it and have done with the rest of the nonsense. The corporate university has destroyed the soul of the subject that should be dear to out hearts for life. Don't you just feel like reinventing education again.
The basic problem is that Universities became business units. The even more disturbing problem is that senior management is uneducated how to run business. Just look at how many senior managers have MBA degree. In the public sector management education is already required to fill senior manager posts, but academia is more conservative. When will it change??

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