Governance of Higher Education in Britain: The Significance of the Research Assessment Exercises for the Funding Council Model.
Governance of Higher Education in Britain: The Significance of the Research Assessment Exercises for the Funding Council Model.
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英国高等教育治理：资助委员会模型研究评估活动的意义。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2273.2004.00257.x
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2004
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B. Salter
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作者：
T. Tapper;B. Salter
本文使用的政治斗争，笼罩着研究评估工作（RAES）来解释英国目前的资助理事会的治理模式。具有讽刺意味的是，正如2001年RAE所显示的那样，英国大学的研究表现明显普遍改善，这使得有选择地分配研究收入变得更加困难，而这本来是整个评估过程的中心目标。虽然提高研究评级可能被视为大学庆祝的理由，但未能预见到这一结果，更重要的是，在政界看来，高等教育管理的失败之处在于它对财政的影响。本文探讨了可能因这场危机而出现的其他治理模式，特别是，
理事会可以有很大的行动自由，因为对政策目标的政治控制更严格，而且理事会在评估过程中严重依赖学术界。
This article uses the political struggles that have enveloped the research assessment exercises (RAEs) to interpret the UK’s current funding council model of governance. Ironically, the apparently widespread improvement in the research performance of British universities, as demonstrated by RAE 2001, has made it more difficult to distribute research income selectively, which was supposedly the central objective of the whole evaluative process.Whilst enhanced research ratings may be seen as a cause for celebration in the universities, the failure to anticipate this outcome and, more significantly, to plan for its financial implications is seen in political circles as a failure of higher education management. The article explores the alternative models of governance that are likely to emerge as a consequence of this crisis and, in particular, whether the funding
councils can have much freedom of action, given the tighter political control of policy goals and their critical dependence upon the academic profession for the conduct of the evaluative process.