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Direct linkWatermeyer, Richard; Olssen, Mark – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2016
A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's "Research Excellence Framework" (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities' response to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
Rowbottom, Darrell P.; Aiston, Sarah Jane – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
How should educational research be contracted? And is there anything wrong with the way that public funding of educational research is currently administered? We endeavour to answer these questions by appeal to the work of two of the most prominent philosophers of science of the twentieth century, namely Popper and Kuhn. Although their normative…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, Taxes
Powell, Stuart; Green, Howard – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2006
This paper explores the implications of government funding for postgraduate research in English universities. Specifically, it focuses upon the funding model introduced recently by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The suggestion in the paper is that the operation of this model will seriously disadvantage certain parts of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Control
