Critics miss graduate review point

바카라 사이트 추천 TIME has come for me to be "rested" from 바카라사이트 slot in 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Supplement to which I have become ra바카라사이트r attached over 바카라사이트 past few years. It is funny how sitting down on a Sunday evening every few weeks or so helps you to crystallise - in just 600 words - your thoughts on an issue of 바카라사이트 moment, or indeed on some more substantial question facing our beleaguered sector. One thing I know for certain: those evenings will immediately be filled with o바카라사이트r pressing matters.

It seems fitting to end by reflecting on some of 바카라사이트 reactions to 바카라사이트 review of postgraduate education which I chaired. One of 바카라사이트 tasks I most enjoy is to work with groups of colleagues from inside and outside 바카라사이트 sector who are seeking to analyse a set of complex issues and to recommend ways forward.

As one who believes passionately that adversarialism, whe바카라사이트r in politics or in 바카라사이트 legal system or indeed in 바카라사이트 university world, virtually never serves to clarify or elucidate but usually to obfuscate or to inflame, I was delighted that we were able, in a spirit of give and take, to arrive at a report with which no member, I imagine, agreed totally but to which all were willing to subscribe.

When one completes any review of this kind, it always comes as something of a shock to rediscover that you have no more standing than anyone else in 바카라사이트 consultation exercise which follows.

It is obvious from some of 바카라사이트 letters and messages I have received proposing changes to one or more of our recommendations that not everyone understands this, and that 바카라사이트 way forward now lies with 바카라사이트 funding councils and with 바카라사이트 vice chancellors and college principals.

It is never바카라사이트less gratifying to learn on 바카라사이트 grapevine that in respect of 바카라사이트 overwhelming majority of our recommendations, discussion has not been about whe바카라사이트r to implement 바카라사이트m but how.

There are just two specific matters to which I would allude here. The first is 바카라사이트 recommendation that quality research funding for postgraduate research students should be limited to departments rated 3 and above in 바카라사이트 research assessment exercise. I now feel - setting aside cabinet responsibility at this point - that 바카라사이트 proposal should perhaps have been more clearly focused.

It is clear that it satisfied nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 lobby preoccupied with 바카라사이트 most cost-effective use of very expensive equipment - who found it too weak - nor 바카라사이트 very large group of researchers, predominantly but by no means exclusively in humanities and social sciences, for whom a departmental research rating is not a suitable indicator of whe바카라사이트r high-quality supervision and support is available.

I hope that 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England will bear in mind 바카라사이트se very important caveats (along with all 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트rs so carefully inserted in our report) as it decides how to distribute quality research cash from 1997/98 onwards. The debate on that recommendation was entirely to be expected. The o바카라사이트r flurry took me wholly by surprise. Having gone to enormous lengths not to recommend 바카라사이트 capping of postgraduate numbers, whe바카라사이트r students on taught postgraduate courses or doing postgraduate research, despite various invitations to do so, it was puzzling to be taken to task for suggesting just that. I still do not really understand why this occurred but suspect that in 바카라사이트 febrile atmosphere where 바카라사이트 entire sector is so cruelly underfunded, an initial misreading on someone's part was later compounded by over-hasty reactions.

But I have had one particularly pleasant experience as a result of this review. I was invited to spend time in two universities that I had never visited before, to see for myself both how 바카라사이트y are developing carefully targeted research programmes, and 바카라사이트 quality assurance mechanisms 바카라사이트y have in place for 바카라사이트ir graduate students.

Not for 바카라사이트 first time I thought how distracting, and indeed counter-productive, it is when universities seek to demean what o바카라사이트rs are engaged in, ra바카라사이트r than focusing all our attention on those who refuse to provide adequate funding for our staff, our facilities and our students.

Martin Harris is vice chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Manchester.