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Does high-quality research require "critical mass"?
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Harrison, Mark (2009) Does high-quality research require "critical mass"? In: Pontikakis, Dimitrios and Kyriakou, Dimitrios and Bavel, Rene van, (eds.) The question of R&D specialisation : perspectives and policy implications. JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (EUR collection) . Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2009 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 53-55 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
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