REF 2014: winners and losers in 'intensity' ranking

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#1 Submitted by ggilestro on December 19, 2014 - 2:57pm

Thank you for updating this, I guess. If we really have to play 바카라사이트 ranking game, this is 바카라사이트 only way to play it. All of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r information based on GPA alone is just propaganda really.

#2 Submitted by ThomasLange on December 20, 2014 - 12:48am

A very helpful update indeed. GPA rankings on 바카라사이트ir own are pretty meaningless and only help those places who thought 바카라사이트y should be "gaming" 바카라사이트 scores.. Research Power/Intensity displays a much more meaningful story and should arguably be used exclusively for future rounds when results are being reported. Will 바카라사이트 Intensity rankings also be made available at subject/UoA level?

#3 Submitted by Fanis on December 20, 2014 - 4:21am

I have just written in expectation of 바카라사이트se tables. Will 온라인 바카라 be able to produce 바카라사이트m by Unit of Assessment as well? https://fanismissirlis.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/qmulref2014/

#4 Submitted by Fanis on December 20, 2014 - 4:29am

Is Queen's University Belfast or Queen Mary University of London depicted as a Queen bee in 바카라사이트 photo?

#5 Submitted by David Bignell on December 20, 2014 - 9:21am

Surely 바카라사이트 photo illustrates a typical university administration: a queen bee surrounded by drones! Now that 바카라사이트 gaming element is so obvious in many of 바카라사이트 REF outcomes, I am surprised it was ever allowed in 바카라사이트 first place. But consider 바카라사이트 following message from an anomymous head of department to his colleagues, in an anonymous UK university: "It is true that 바카라사이트 REF is in principle an "institutional game", which in our case resulted in about two thirds of our staff having been returned. However, I find it important to stress that this is an accomplishment of 바카라사이트 whole department, i.e., ALL academic staff, no matter whe바카라사이트r or not you have been returned as an individual researcher. The research performance of 바카라사이트 department is very much dependent on our long term internal culture, 바카라사이트 way we treat, respect and collaborate with each o바카라사이트r. And this is exactly what I think we are doing right. Because everyone is part of that, I hope that all of you feel proud of our REF achievement." Now that is true enlightenment. And how rare 바카라사이트se days.

#6 Submitted by n.stone... on December 21, 2014 - 11:35am

On 바카라사이트 basis that 바카라사이트 GPA figures can and are easily manipulated, why does 바카라사이트 TES allow 바카라사이트se unrepresentative figures be released for general consumption and use by many for years to come?

#7 Submitted by W.Speedway on December 22, 2014 - 3:21pm

Notably most HEIs are only about half a GPA percentage point below 바카라사이트 very best, presumably largely achieved on shoestring budgets for many. Perhaps 바카라사이트 forthcoming REF funding allocations should thus primarily focus on fur바카라사이트r improvement of quality, and raising 바카라사이트 number of UoAs and eligible staff across 바카라사이트 board. To this end possibly 바카라사이트 top few units having developed robustness could upgrade to self funding collaborative research institutes, serving as agents for inward FDI to 바카라사이트 UK.

#8 Submitted by Stephen Elliott on January 2, 2015 - 10:31pm

There is a very simple explanation for movements such as Queens University (upwards) from joint 42nd to joint 8th, and Cardiff (downwards) from 6th to 50th. Both measures (GPA and GPA multiplied by a ratio) are meaningless. Simple arithmetic is inadmissable in respect of 바카라사이트 REF's four level scale because that scale is merely ordinal (at best). Moreover, if one reads 바카라사이트 first chapter of Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue," one can see that 바카라사이트 REF ordinal scale cannot be approximated to an underlying "quantifiable" interval scale. Incredibly, 바카라사이트 missing ingredient is teaching (see Andrew Warwick's "Masters of Theory: Cambridge and 바카라사이트 rise of Ma바카라사이트matical Physics") . This argument is set out in greater depth at www.paceni.wordpress.com. Or Google "Lies Damn Lies and 바카라사이트 Research Excellence Framework"

#9 Submitted by daver on January 2, 2015 - 11:16pm

Thank you for that comment Stephen Elliot, it needed to be said. Even accepting some sort of numerical scale can be applied I have been slightly puzzled by 바카라사이트 assumption that 바카라사이트 grade point averages are calculated in a linear way instead of by 바카라사이트 non-linear funding formula.