Times Higher – Research funding: report affirms it should be based on excellence, not size
…s well as, if not better than, larger research units”, while “the very largest research units do not seem to perform better than those of around median size”. It speculates that, rather than scale driving excellence, excellence enables small research units to grow by allowing them to attract more funding, while poor performance causes large units to shrink. “If funding was to be concentrated on the basis of scale, small excellent units would be lo…