Living Apart Relationships - Grading Universities

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Grading universities - The rights and wrongs of the Research Excellence Framework. The REF is the most recent in a series of national assessments of research in British universities. But how reliable and fair are these assessments? Do they give the taxpayer value for money, as is hoped by their advocates? And will they lead to the best and most innovative research in the future? Laurie Taylor asks the questions. He's joined by the former Minister for Higher Education and Conservative MP, David Willets, and by Derek Sayer, Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and author of a recent book which argues that the REF isn't fit for purpose.

Also, living apart together. Sasha Roseneil, co-author of a Europe wide study, examines why a growing number of couples choose to live separately.

Producer: Torquil Macleod.

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1:20.3	Hello I suppose my teenage girlfriend Carol and I must have talked about a great many important matters in all those hours we spent together sitting around in coffee houses and in her parent narrow front room. But all I can now remember are the almost
1:34.7	endless conversations about what we would do when we were older, when we could
1:38.8	live together. I mean just imagine being in our very own place, having our own bedroom rather than a
1:44.9	Liverpool back alley or a Formby sand dune, having our own food, our own furniture.
1:50.1	Carol I remember always wanted to have G-plan. Yes and our own wallpaper our own pictures the Beach boys said it all We can wake back in the morning when the day is new.
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