What does REF stand for?

Research Excellence Framework (Higher Education Funding Council for England; UK)

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In a wide-ranging document, the CBI called on the Government to ensure that the new Research Excellence Framework gave proper recognition to excellent business-relevant research and to make it clear that Government support for university-business interaction was to improve the knowledge base and increase economic impact.

Uni challenge to sacred cows

The new Research Excellence Framework (REF) system would be postponed for a year, announced John Denham, the universities secretary, and far from judging the quality of UK research by "metrics" (statistics such as income and the number of times papers are cited by fellow researchers in their field), the elaborate system of peer review that forms the basis of the RAE will continue, albeit in "light touch" form.

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