A recently published survey of the use of time by full-time academic and related staff in UK universities (Court, 1994) highlighted concerns about the workload pressures and competing demands faced by staff in academic institutions. Administrative tasks, particularly those associated with the recurrent research and teaching assessment exercises, now constitute an increasingly large proportion of the working week, accounting for a third of all duties.
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Nolan et al. (1994) studied this question.