Life after another RAE
Jan 7, 2002
Every four or five years since 1986 the quality of research in university departments in the UK has been put under the microscope
in the research assessment exercise (RAE). In the first exercise, departments were awarded one of five grades: a grade 5 meant that
research in the department was outstanding, 4 meant it was above average, 3 was average and so on. In that first exercise 15
physics departments received grades 4 or 5, while almost half - some 24 out of 55 - were rated as below average.
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