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Training Researchers in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Response to Global Leadership in Research
Jeremy S. Eades,Malcolm Cooper +1 more
- pp 201-216
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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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
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The Internationalisation of Learning and the Nationalisation of the Purposes of Higher Education: two 'laws of motion' in conflict?
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Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop
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The role of academic journal publications in the UK Research Assessment Exercise
Valerie Bence,Charles Oppenheim +1 more
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.