UCU on RAE

http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1442

University and College Union on the RAE.

“The RAE has had a disastrous impact on the UK higher education system, leading to the closure of departments with strong research profiles and healthy student recruitment. It has been responsible for job losses, discriminatory practices, widespread demoralisation of staff, the narrowing of research opportunities through the over-concentration of funding and the undermining of the relationship between teaching and research.”

RAE is extremely transactional.