Results of two-year-long assessment of universities’ research output will determine division of funding
• See the full university rankings hereCambridge University has been nudged off its perch as Britain’s leading research university,overtaken by its traditional rival Oxford and the London powerhouses after a two-year-long assessment of research quality.
The results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (Ref), published on Friday, or will be pored over by the 52000 academics at 154 institutions who took fraction in the enormous public assessment of their research output,which determines the division of £2bn of public money in research funding annually.
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Source: theguardian.com