Research Assessment Exercise 2008
The primary purpose of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was to assess the research activity in universities and colleges throughout the UK.
A panel of experts assessed the quality of research taken place across a number of subject areas or Units of Assessment (UoA), and created a quality profile for each university or college. The quality profile outlined the proportion of research in each area that is ‘world leading’ (4*), ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) or internationally (2*) or nationally (1*) recognised.
The RAE was conducted jointly by the four higher education funding bodies in the UK – the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland.
These funding bodies use the RAE results to determine the amount of money, or grants, they will allocate to each university or college to fund their research from 2009-10.
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