"The Art of Punishing": The Research Assessment Exercise and the Ritualisation of Power in Higher Education

Creator

Lee-Anne Broadhead
Sean Howard

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

April 1998

Abstract

In this article it is argued that the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)--undertaken by the United Kingdom's Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFC)--is part of a much larger process of assessment in education generally. By taking the RAE as its focus, this article uses a Foucaultian analysis to amplify the nature and practice of disciplinary power in the setting of Higher Education. ...

Keywords

Education--United Kingdom

Extent

14

Geographic Location

United Kingdom

Volume

6

Issue

8

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00099

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Broadhead, Lee-Anne and Howard, Sean, ""The Art of Punishing": The Research Assessment Exercise and the Ritualisation of Power in Higher Education" (1998). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 332.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/332