Abstract
Over the last 25 years, the ranking of universities according to their research output has shaped the United Kingdom (UK) higher education sector as a whole and had a profound impact on individual institutions. More recently, it has been one of the main mechanisms whereby the UK higher education sector has sought to raise its profile globally. Measures other than research inform the overall ranking of institutions, but within the UK the emphasis on research — and on research output — has been a defining feature of the higher education landscape. In this respect one can see a clear link between UK aspirations and the supremacy of the elite researchled universities within the United States (US). The so-called special relationship between the US and the UK extends to higher education — although in this arena, as in so many others, the ‘special relationship’ is a decidedly one-way affair with the Ivy League brand calling most of the shots.
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