BEAN-COUNTING APPROACH TO UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CAN BE DAMAGING WARN EXPERTS
June 1st, 2012
BY DAVID HAWORTH, IN BRUSSELS;
The expansion of research assessment caused by obsessive measurement and monitoring is fostering a global "bean counting culture" in tertiary education that can detract from the real quality of university research, experts have warned.
Concern has been highlighted by a just-published report by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) authored by Dr Mary Philips, formerly director of research planning at University College London (UCL).
At a launch seminar in Brussels she spelt out the numerous pitfalls of ...
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