The UK Research Assessment Exercise: Unintended Consequences

By Lewis Elton. 2000

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

• Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, unknown): “ Elton, L. (2000) ‘The UK research assessment exercise: unintended consequences’, Higher Education Quarterly, 54/3: 274-283.”
• Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review (2003, background): “It may also have ‘isolated researchers from practitioners’ (Elton, 2000, p. 279) to the extent that pressures to publish operate to detract from practitioners’ contact.”
• Neo-Liberalism and Marketisation: The Implications for Higher Education (2006, background): “Student and staff idealism to work in the service of humanity is seriously diminished as universities operate as entrepreneurial, purely competitive business-oriented corporations (Elton, 2000).”