NSS and teaching excellence: the wrong measure, wrongly analysed

By Dorothy Bishop. We moan at bureaucratic exercises, such as the research excellence framework (REF), and at endless monitoring of our performance, but we mostly go along with it, sensing that there is an inevitability about how things are structured. Indeed, for some people, there is fear that protest could be dangerous, because there is ample precedent in the sector for redundancies to be announced with little warning. More...