Yes - Amanda has returned and is at it again.
Amanda Solloway spoke at a Higher Education Policy Institute webinar about improving the way we evaluate research.
It’s truly fantastic to be with you today – and thank you to Nick for the invitation.
With the disruption we’re all facing, it’s so important that we can keep meeting virtually like this.
It is truly a testament to how adaptable we are, that these virtual meetings now feel quite normal – a sign that we are all more capable of responding to change than we think we are.
And change is something which you, as a higher education community, are experts in responding to – with your heroic efforts over the last few months being just the latest example of how our universities are adapting to a changing world...
We need to work together to build an evaluation system that achieves our goals.
More quality time spent on research.
A positive culture which recognises all contributions to research.
A culture which motivates people to do diverse, creative and risk-taking work.
Institutions improving in ways that align to their diverse missions.
And clear accountability for public funding without layer upon layer of complex bureaucracy.
We should not shy away from asking the tough questions.
We need to be prepared to take bold decisions.
But I realise of course that this will take time.
3 comments:
Wouldn't it be wonderful if she could have done some basic reading and just turned up and said:
"These are the three basic ways in which we can evaluate research....(brief summary and that's what I will be putting funds into. If you have any better ideas, just let my Departmental Office know and I'll get on to it.
Now, I won't take up any more of your valuable time..."
Today, that would seem like a parody, wouldn't it?
Ah educashun educashun, I came across this the other day, a piece in the Hackney Gazette about how those who were excluded from classes were four times more likely to be of BAME or Irish traveler 'heritage' and it had absolutely nothing to do with failure to turn up failure to do the work or abusing of teachers, it was in fact all the fault of....
“Instead, it remains a place which privileges white, middle class people, in all sorts of ways, but particularly in our education system.”
Nowhere in the article is any other reason given for the exclusions.....
https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/education/fixed-term-exclusions-in-hackney-1-6864831
Sam - it would also be wonderful if she said "any epidemiologist or climate scientist may as well f**k off now, you don't get anything on my watch".
Wiggia - the tragedy of it is that they will never solve these problems unless they find a way to row back towards some level of objectivity. The trouble is, they don't want to solve them or even go part way to solving them.
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