Assessment
The Australian Research Council has come under criticism. Brian Martin points out that the ARC has tended to confuse inputs and outputs, that is, in assessing potential research projects it tends to look at how much money a researcher has previously been granted (2011:100); the ARC artificially sets reporting requirements to confirm how effective the ARC is in promoting research (2011:100); and the result of the ARC and its recent initiatives has been to encourage competition between universities, competition ultimately counterproductive to the research process (2011:101).
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