[Brytani]

If Churchill is correct that most professors could not stand up to scrutiny as he has, maybe it's time to look into ALL professors to see who's honest, and who needs to end up on the employment line.

[magooey]

Churchill says most professors could not stand up to scrutiny as he has.

In the U.K., there is a government agency that evaluates the research of each department every 5 or so years. I understand that they takes the four best papers of each department member over the past 5 years, and evaluate the quality of the research. Each department of a University gets a grade that is public information. It used to be a grade up to 5, but lately some top departments have been awarded a 6 for excellence in research. So if you put a fire under the rear ends of academics, you can increase quality of output.

Australia is now considering adopting this research quality control technique. Given that these governments are spending billions on their Universities, institutions that are supposed to be 'communities of scholars whose purpose is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge', with advancement meaning research, the State can reasonably try to get its money's worth.

Why can't we do this in the US?

Magooey