Nationally, there has been debate on the role of research within higher education and increased interest in the teaching/research nexus. A team of Academic Liaison Librarians at Anglia Polytechnic University was awarded funding to investigate the extent to which learning…

The central argument of this paper is that current regimes of performance measurement in the
UK's higher education sector are unlikely to deliver any real improvements in performance.
Rather, the paper argues, the most likely outcomes will be further increases…