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The redundancies currently taking place at the University of Warwick represent a revolution in the meaning and purpose of academic work. Senior staff in departments that are deemed loss-making (the medical school and life sciences) are judged on a single metric: external research grants awarded to them over the past four years. With a few exceptions, every associate professor or professor whose success in raising research grants is less than an average of £90,000 (£75,000 in life sciences) per year faces being dismissed unless they can argue a special case in mitigation. The most remarkable feature of the process is that research success is not acceptable as an argument. You can be publishing regularly at the highest standard of excellence, you can have been entered for the research excellence framework as a 4* researcher, but if you have not got external research contracts you are disposable.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:22:44 +0000

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