“I’ve just listened to a programme on Radio 4, Peer Review in the Dock, which claimed to discuss the evidence that peer review in science and academia is a flawed process. It turned out that the subject of the programme was actually rather narrower than that, concentrating on the perceived flaws of peer review in publication of research, rather than the wider use of peer review in assuring standards in learning and teaching or in the Research Assessment Exercise …” (more)
[Ellie Clewlow, Intersecting sets, 13 August]