ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02110.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAbout £8 billion a year is spent on research and development in the UK, and the money is found by bodies ranging from the UGC ‐ whose interest is in supporting good long‐term science and technology ‐ to research councils with strategic research and development objectives and firms and government departments wanting solutions to their own scientific and technological problems. And the structure for funding research and development in British academe is changing rapidly, in a highly political manner. What are the threats and opportunities for British academics in the new world of British research and development f

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02111.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe UGC norm‐based allocation of 1986, the current proposals for the rationalisation of departments, and the proposals of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) for R, X and T class universities are assessed against the actual operations of productive science departments and their patterns of expenditure on research as revealed born a recent sample survey. It is concluded that the UGC's norm‐based allocation did not in any systematic way secure increases related to current research activity except for those cases where this came from the student number‐based teaching element. Only the creation of larger departments seems likely to increase research output, and often that will best be achieved by increases in student numbers and their associated funding. Institutions similar to T class universities can be achieved by encouraging the recruitment of students at the expense of the public sector, but the distribution between R and X class universities is unsustai

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02112.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper considers the background to the proposals of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) to channel the bulk of university science research allocations through new inter‐disciplinary University Research Centres (URCs) in research areas of potential strategic economic exploitability, for the most part in selected research universities within a proposed three‐tier university system. The proposals are set against the background of Britain's declining economic competitiveness, higher education's present need to justify itself to government in increasingly utilitarian terms, and the ABRC's plans for stretching limited resources by further concentrating university science and scientific research in fewer departments and centres. The origins of the URC model are examined and related to similar centres now being introduced in America. Mobility between the URCs and university departments is seen as a key issue, as is the question of whether a balance of resources can be maintained between the two. The relations between URCs, industry, and the new Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology is also seen as important. A sensitive issue is whether or not the sort of concentration and redirection of research resources envisioned by the ABRC will result in long‐term distortions of scientific development ‐ and of the overall intellectual directions, shape and standing of British unive

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02113.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractBibliometric tools of analysis are becoming increasingly common as means of measuring the research output of university departments. This paper provides a critical review of these techniques. It is concluded that such methods may profitably be used to enhance our understanding of the optimal research environment within each subject area. However, their ability to measure performance is extremely limited.

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02114.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe University of Buckingham is now more than 10 years old. This would seem an opportune moment to evaluate the achievements of the only privately financed university in Britain. One might evaluate Buckingham from a number of standpoints but we have decided in this essay to evaluate it in the light of the purposes for which it was founded as expressed in the objectives laid down by its ‘founding fathers’. We might instead have opted for such ‘performance indicators’ as admission standards, degrees conferred, wastage rates, post‐graduation employment records, research grants awarded, and the like, in comparison with results achieved elsewhere in British higher education. But we think that little purpose would be served by such comparisons since Buckingham is too young an institution to have settled down to a steady state. Nevertheless, we have supplied relevant data below, which will allow the reader to form some judgement on where Buckingham stands in respect of thes

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02115.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:A Presidential View of the Importance of Teaching:Higher Learning, Derek BokCinderella has Grown Up:The Creation of the Local Authority Sector of Higher Education, Paul R. SharpPer Ardua ad Astra:Beyond the Limelight: Essays on the Occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Conference of University Administrators, Stuart BosworthAn Under‐achieving Society:Choosing to Learn: Adults in Education, Alan WoodleyTwo‐Track Training ‐ Sex Inequalities and the YTS, Cynthia CockburnYTS: The Impact on FE, Sheila M. Stoney and Anne

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02116.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02117.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02118.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02119.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY