Education, Arts and Culture

RAND Europe supports government departments, art organisations, community partnerships and others by conducting research that informs objective policy and decisionmaking in education, arts and culture.

Our interdisciplinary and international research team is engaged in assessing the effectiveness of interventions, evaluating government programmes, and identifying and overcoming barriers and hurdles to implementation.

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The Impact and Value of Arts and Humanities Research at Cambridge University

Wren Library, Cambridge University, photo courtesy of idlethink.wordpress.com

A project for the University of Cambridge and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to assess the impact of arts and humanities research activities at the University of Cambridge. The project is designed to test how the impacts (e.g. social, cultural, political and educational, as well as economic) of arts and humanities research can most appropriately be assessed. The method attempts to go beyond immediate and easily measured effects. The project methods could subsequently be used to assess AHRC-sponsored arts and humanities research elsewhere.

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Role of Language Skills in Academic Research — 26 June 2009

A study for the British Academy investigates evidence for the role of language skills in academic research in the humanities and social sciences in UK universities. The British Academy has concerns about declining abilities of UK born and educated individuals to use language skills.

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Digitalization Offers Opportunities for Higher Education Institutions — 18 February 2009

Digital repositories can help Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to capture, identify, store and retrieve such intellectual assets as data-sets, course material and research papers. The leadership of these institutions, however, has been concerned about the awareness of and commitment to repositories and their sustainability in the future. This research brief informs universities and other HEIs about the different motivations for using and investing in digital repositories and highlights potential ways of addressing the challenges of embedding these repositories in institutional strategy and daily operation.

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