The research-policy gap

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There is a serious mismatch between the interests of higher education researchers and the agendas of policy-makers and, to a lesser extent, practitioners. This mismatch has been made worse by changes in the policy environment (the rise of sound-bite politics), within higher education (the development of mass systems) and in research itself (the increasing emphasis on relevance and/or the denial of ‘objectivity’). The higher education research community is itself fragmented and weakly institutionalized. Although its eclecticism, arguably, is an advantage in the new research environment, its shallow institutional roots and shifting membership continue to create difficulties. As a result the articulation between research and policy in higher education is both problematical and transgressive but not without intellectual opportunities.

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