Nursing and the Research Assessment Exercise: what counts?
Two significant events for British nursing research took place during 1992. First, the Higher Education Funding Council's (HEFC) Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was carried out across all university-based academic subjects. Twenty nine United Kingdom (UK) university departments of nursing took pan in this exercise. The results, announced in December, showed nursing to be at the bottom of the league table - 72nd out of the 72 academic cost centres ( 1 ).
Head of Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nottingham.
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