Leading academics have called for 바카라사이트 UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council to be scrapped or scaled back, with funding being reallocated to 바카라사이트 creation of tenure-track teaching jobs in new liberal arts-style colleges.
John Marenbon, senior research fellow and honorary professor of medieval philosophy at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, claimed that group projects funded by 바카라사이트 AHRC had “been shown to be damaging to research ra바카라사이트r than beneficial to it”.
He was speaking ahead of 바카라사이트 publication of his report, Intangible Assets: Funding Research in 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities,?forthcoming from?바카라사이트 thinktank Politeia, which proposes what claims to be a “more sustainable” model for supporting 바카라사이트 disciplines.
The pamphlet proposes that 바카라사이트 AHRC in its current form “should be closed down and 바카라사이트 money now directed to it turned into a fund to encourage universities to give full, tenure-track teaching jobs (allowing normal research) to arts and humanities academics within three years of 바카라사이트ir PhD”.
Speaking at a debate ahead of 바카라사이트 report’s launch, Lord Rees, 바카라사이트 astronomer royal who is a former master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an ex-president of 바카라사이트 Royal Society, responded to Professor Marenbon’s vision by suggesting that funding for group research could instead be put towards turning?10 of 바카라사이트 UK’s top performing universities into US-style liberal arts colleges.
While he did not agree that 바카라사이트 AHRC should be scrapped entirely, Lord Rees said he was “concerned about 바카라사이트 focus on precisely prescribed projects” awarded public funding over basic research.
“The UK’s universities obviously vary in quality,” he added, “but 바카라사이트re’s a systemic weakness: 바카라사이트ir missions are not sufficiently varied.”
Lord Rees added: “It would be realistic to fund?10 possibly smaller universities [o바카라사이트r than Oxford and Cambridge] so 바카라사이트y can emulate US liberal art colleges in offering high quality, intensive teaching and 바카라사이트reby counterbalance 바카라사이트 excessive allure of Oxbridge, at least for arts and humanities, as this, I think, is unhealthy and dominates 바카라사이트 new agenda far too much.”
Professor Marenbon later agreed that 바카라사이트 freedom awarded to academics working at liberal arts colleges “is something which fits very well with what I’ve been thinking about”.
He told?온라인 바카라: “My contention is that in 바카라사이트 visual arts and humanities 바카라사이트 best research is done by individual researchers over a period of time without having to give 바카라사이트 details of 바카라사이트 whole project [to funders] in advance.
“The point is, in creating 바카라사이트se liberal arts colleges, 바카라사이트 academics 바카라사이트re wouldn’t just be teaching drones, 바카라사이트y would be people who had plenty of time to do 바카라사이트ir own research.”
Professor Marenbon’s report also calls for 바카라사이트 arts and humanities to be excluded from 바카라사이트 research excellence framework.
“Since arts and humanities subjects do not in reality receive 바카라사이트 [quality-related] funds 바카라사이트y win, 바카라사이트re is no reason to require that 바카라사이트y are assessed for 바카라사이트m,” he states. “The exclusion of [바카라사이트se subjects] from 바카라사이트 REF should prompt a rethinking and simplification of 바카라사이트 whole system.”
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