The latest BU REF Highlight Report (#15) is now available for BU staff to download. It covers the period from February 2013 to August 2013.
Features in this report include information about:
- the Spring 2013 Full Mock Exercise
- the processes involved in the provisional staff selection for inclusion in the BU REF2014 assessment;
- Impact assessment panel
- UOA merger decision
- the REF Submission system
- Links to the latest official REF documents.
You can access your copy of the report from the following location on the I-drive (just copy and paste the following into Windows Explorer): I:\R&KEO\Public\RDU\REF\REF prep
arations\REF highlight reports.











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