Abstract
A unique British institution was sentenced to the axe this afternoon - though few in the Commons or outside realised it from Gordon Brown's rapid-fire delivery.
The research assessment exercise (RAE) - a gargantuan exercise in which every active researcher in every university in the UK is painstakingly assessed by panels of other academics - is to go.
The next RAE in 2008 will be the last as part of the chancellor's attempt to "radically simplify" the method of distributing research funding to universities.
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