BMJ 2000;320:636-639 ( 4 March )

Education and debate

The research assessment exercise and medical research

Editorial by Goldbeck-Wood Education and debate pp   630 , 633

Stephen Tomlinson, professor. 

Clinical Research Division II, Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester M13 9WL

stephen.tomlinson@man.ac.uk

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In 1999-2000 the Higher Education Funding Council for England will distribute over £855m for research, virtually all of it according to the quality and amount of research done. Quality is assessed through a periodic research assessment exercise. Research is funded selectively so that universities and colleges with high quality research departments get a larger share of the money. The first research assessment exercise to cover the entire higher education sector was undertaken in 1992, the last one was in 1996, and the next will take place in 2001. The research community now has an opportunity to influence the way in which quality of research is assessed after the exercise in 2001 because, from now until autumn 2000, the funding councils for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are undertaking a fundamental review of research policy and funding.¹

Each higher education institution is allocated a block grant that includes quality related research funding. This quality related . . . [Full text of this article]

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