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Harrison, Mark, 1949- (2009) Does high-quality research require "critical mass"? In: The question of R&D specialisation : perspectives and policy implications. JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (EUR collection) . Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, pp. 53-55. ISBN 9789279124884
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Abstract
Charles Clarke, the UK's education secretary from 2002 to 2004, once asked: "Should we enable more of the best researchers to focus on research, and develop a more professional teaching force for universities specialising in teaching?" The drift of research funding decisions in British universities since then has been to concentrate resources on a few key institutions that already command the bulk of research finance. We have been told that world-class research requires "critical mass", and this is to be found in the "golden triangle" formed by Oxford, Cambridge, and London; those institutions elsewhere that do not have critical mass would be better left without any research funding at all than encouraged to continue to waste national resources on the small-scale, low-value projects that are the only kind of work they are capable of.
| Item Type: | Book Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Research -- Great Britain |
| Series Name: | JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (EUR collection) |
| Publisher: | Office for Official Publications of the European Communities |
| Place of Publication: | Luxembourg |
| ISBN: | 9789279124884 |
| Book Title: | The question of R&D specialisation : perspectives and policy implications |
| Editor: | Pontikakis, Dimitrios and Kyriakou, Dimitrios and Bavel, Rene van |
| Date: | June 2009 |
| Page Range: | pp. 53-55 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44465 |
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