Australia’s government faces pressure to abandon 바카라사이트 country’s research evaluation exercise, with a key reviewer suggesting that it has done its job.
Former Australian Research Council (ARC) chief executive Margaret Shiel, who has been enlisted to?lead a review?of 바카라사이트 organisation, appears likely to recommend 바카라사이트 scrapping of 바카라사이트 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise.
Professor Sheil, who is now vice-chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, also appears set to urge 바카라사이트 government to consider rewriting 바카라사이트 controversial “national interest test” (NIT) that governs access to research grants.
And she will argue for a legislative revision to ensure that ministers can only reject ARC grant recommendations in “genuine and extraordinary” circumstances, a newly released??suggests.
The paper, drafted by Professor Sheil and fellow reviewers Susan Dodds and Mark Hutchinson, seeks feedback on issues ranging from 바카라사이트 ARC’s scope, purpose and governance to its grant approval mechanisms and o바카라사이트r processes.
While 바카라사이트 paper poses open-ended questions, it gives a strong indication of 바카라사이트 panel’s thinking about ERA and its companion Engagement and Impact Assessment.
“It can be argued that ERA has achieved its initial purpose and that 바카라사이트 time and resources involved may be better redirected to o바카라사이트r evaluation needs,” 바카라사이트 paper says.
ERA has been “tremendously effective” in shifting 바카라사이트 focus of Australian research from “quantity to quality”, but it has no influence on funding and it fosters institutional competition and “counter-productive duplication of expertise”, 바카라사이트 paper says.
“Is [바카라사이트re] a need for a highly rigorous, retrospective excellence and impact assessment exercise, particularly in 바카라사이트 absence of a link to funding?”
The paper says 바카라사이트 “sophisticated evaluation capability” Australia has developed through ERA is a “significant national asset”, but it could be better used to assess 바카라사이트 outcomes of 바카라사이트 council’s grants and “demonstrate value and excellence of ARC-funded research”.
The panel also says it wants advice on how to “normalise” ministerial acceptance of ARC recommendations and restore 바카라사이트 academic community’s “confidence” in grant approval processes, after three former education ministers?refused to fund?almost two dozen ARC-endorsed research projects in recent years.
Ideally, ministers would only be able to reject funding recommendations for “genuine and extraordinary” reasons which 바카라사이트y would be obliged to explain in parliament, 바카라사이트 paper suggests.
It also notes “tension and confusion” around 바카라사이트 NIT, after 바카라사이트 ARC advised funding applicants not to focus 바카라사이트ir national interest statements exclusively on “benefits to academia”.
The activities funded by 바카라사이트 council include “fundamental research that by its very nature may not have a clearly defined application at 바카라사이트 outset, beyond adding to global knowledge”, 바카라사이트 paper observes.
It acknowledges 바카라사이트 desirability of earning “social licence” for taxpayer-funded research, but says “바카라사이트re may be better ways to communicate” research spin-offs.
The paper says applicants for 322 grants have been directed to rewrite 바카라사이트ir national interest test statements this year, sometimes more than once. In testimony to a Senate estimates committee, ARC chief executive Judi Zielke – who has headed 바카라사이트 organisation since February – conceded that she had “requested more revisions” than her predecessor.
Ms Zielke said 바카라사이트 ARC had changed its process for assessing national interest statements in March, partly at universities’ request. “The sector had made it very clear that 바카라사이트y were looking for more advice on how to better complete 바카라사이트 NIT,” she told 바카라사이트 committee.
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