What quality assurance and accountability procedures are in place for educational research and development?
There is much good quality research in the area of children and education being undertaken across the four countries of the UK. However it is important to note that while the overall quality is good, there is considerable variation across the UK countries. The quality of education research across the UK higher education sector has risen significantly in recent years as demonstrated by the results of the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). In the last RAE (2001) only 13 universities were awarded grades from ‘international excellence’ whereas in 2008 the work of 39 institutions was judged to be ‘recognised internationally’ or better. However it is important to note that while overall quality is improving, there is considerable variation across the countries of the UK and there remains much work to be done. The report of the Education RAE panel describes the outcome in more detail. Whilst a central location for much academic research work in education takes place in university depa
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