Current Consultations

Research Excellence Framework

A text of CCUE’s response to the HEFCE consultation on draft assessment criteria and working methods for REF2014 can be downloaded here. CCUE’s response was based on over thirty replies received from UK English departments to its own consultation.

White Paper on Higher Education

A text of CCUE's response to the Government's consultation on its recent White Paper, 'Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System', can be downloaded here.

Funding of Arts and Humanities

• CCUE letter to David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, 2010
• 'Defending the Undefendable' (John Tusa, address to OGM, 2010)
• 'English and the Future of the Humanities' (Patricia Waugh, position paper, 2010)

Previous Consultations

• Response to REF Consultation, December 2009
• Response to AHRC Future Directions Consultation
• Response to ERIH lists in Literature and Linguistics, 2008
• Response to HEFCE REF Consultation
• Response to AHRC Postgraduate Funding Consultation 2006
• Response to the DfES Consultation on 'Reform of higher education research assessment and funding'
• Response to the ERIH consultation: April 2006
• Response to Review of Subject Benchmark Statements 2005
• Response to RAE Panels Configuration March 2004
• Response to AHRC Working Group on Doctoral Research
• Response to English sub-panel RAE draft criteria
• Response to the White Paper on Higher Education, 2003 
• Response to Research Assessment Review, November 2002 
• Response to AHRB Postgraduate Review 2002 
• Response to BA Postgraduate Review 2000
• Response to Consultation on Research Libraries Support Programme 1999