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There are a number of problems affecting academic medecine in the United Kingdom. These affect the interface between the National Health Service (NHS) and universities. The problems were confirmed in a report by Rex Richards for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, published in 1997. The report includes a recommendation that staff numbers should increase along with student numbers. The crisis is worsening, and deeper reforms are needed than those proposed by Richards, such as an academic medicine career structure.
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The Institute for Learning and Teaching is unlikely to make membership a pre-requisite for academics' participation in the research assessment exercise as previously announced. Accreditation must be suitable for both experienced and new teachers without demeaning conditions attached, with 'academic practice' perceived as an appropriate concept to emphasise subject knowledge centrality and shared values. A national framework should be established specifying academic administration, evaluation, assessment, teaching and planning.
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Former polytechnics, renamed new universities, in the UK tend to receive less funding for research than do traditional universities. New universities have taken part in the Research Assessment Exercise, but some of the work that they do is not taken into account by the RAE. The national interest may not be the same as notions of academic excellence, and applied research is important for the UK. There should also be collaboration between institutions.
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