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Training Researchers in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Response to Global Leadership in Research

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The most examined of all research league tables is the UK RAE, which has been held every 5-6 years since 1985 as mentioned in this paper, and it is the most widely used research league table.
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The growth of the audit culture in the world academic research system as typified by the United Kingdom Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has led to an extreme preoccupation with research league tables, and their associated branding, marketing, and managerial strategies. The most examined of all research league tables is the UK RAE, which has been held every 5–6 years since 1985.

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Japanese Higher Education As Myth

TL;DR: In this article, the Potemkin Factor and Mendacity of Japanese Higher Education as simulated schooling are discussed, and the Price of Simulated Schooling and "Reform" is discussed.
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The UK Research Assessment Exercise: Unintended Consequences

TL;DR: It is argued that many of the consequences that have followed successive Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs) have been unintended and a high proportion of these, particularly the longer term ones, are deleterious or potentially so as mentioned in this paper.
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Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop

TL;DR: Hall et al. as mentioned in this paper look into the causes of these cultural and institutional barriers and examines ineffective past attempts to challenge them, concluding that these market barriers serve neither the professed goals of Japan nor those of the United States, despite repeated promises to open up, Japanese legal, media, academic and research organizations run an intellectual closed shop.
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The role of academic journal publications in the UK Research Assessment Exercise

TL;DR: The developing role of journal publications as a vehicle for academic research output is examined via the chronology of the RAE, before assessing the current situation in which published journal output formed almost 70% of all output assessed by RAE panels in the latest exercise.
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