Performance measurement is a vital part of the new managerialism in higher education. Measuring inputs is relatively easy, but measuring outputs in a way that does justice to issues of quality is more difficult. Until those quality issues are resolved, performance measurement will be viewed by academics as an externally imposed constraint rather than the means by which they judge themselves.
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