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The Research Performance of UK Universities: A Statistical Analysis of the Results of the 1989 Research Selectivity Exercise
Author(s) -
Johnes Jill,
Taylor Jim,
Francis Brian
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2982732
Subject(s) - statistical analysis , mathematics education , selectivity , psychology , statistics , mathematics , chemistry , biochemistry , catalysis
SUMMARY This paper undertakes a statistical analysis of the Universities Funding Council's 1989 research selectivity exercise, focusing on differences between universities in the research rating obtained by individual cost centres. The statistical analysis indicates that several variables are significantly related to interuniversity variations in research rating. These include a cost centre's size, the research rating of other cost centres in the same institution, research expenditure per staff member and whether a university was previously a college of advanced technology. Several other variables, such as the student:staff ratio, were found to be statistically significant in only a few cost centres.