REF selectivity fears ‘prove unfounded’

By Paul Jump for Times Higher Education. Fears that universities would be more selective about who they submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework have proved unfounded. 
According to funding councils, higher education institutions submitted 52,077 staff to the REF, the submission deadline for which was 29 November. This is only fractionally fewer than the 52,401 submitted to the 2008 research assessment exercise. Read more...