Destroying British Universities with Paperwork

Chris Bertram (Bristol Philosophy) points to just one example of the bureaucratic "accountability" requirements that are indeed driving faculty from the UK. His example pertains to the hoops one has to jump through to secure funding for graduate students. But far worse, according to my friends, is the absurd "Teaching Quality Assessment," which has nothing to do with assessing teaching quality, and everything to do with record-keeping and paper shuffling. At least the Research Assessment Exercise--which is its own administrative nightmare--has a substantive component (namely, actual evaluation of research by experts in the field), though if the RAE keeps inflating the grades, this will soon be meaningless as well.