Howard Davies' astute comments on the REF's corrosive effects on the quality of academic writing remind me of Flannery O'Connor's observation: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
Gary Thomas, School of Education, University of Birmingham
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