The latest BU REF Highlight Report (#12) is now available for BU staff to download. It covers the period from January to July 2012.
Features in this report include information about:
- The finalisation and submision of the BU REF Code of Practice;
- The compilation of data for the outputs mock REF exercise;
- Training related to the equality and diversity aspects of the REF;
- Links to the latest offical REF documents and guidance information from the Equalities Challenge Unit (ECU).

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 preparations\REF highlight reports












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