The Research Excellence Framework (REF) has become a major part of the higher education research landscape, informing the allocation of around £2billion of research funding each year. It’s a major undertaking for all participating universities, impacting on almost...
One of the regular excuses politicians trot out after their party has taken a by-election kicking is that ‘there were some local issues in play’. It’s a way of avoiding having to acknowledge that it is the party that has lost as much as the candidate, and therefore...
