A felsőoktatás és a tudomány értékelése körüli harcok Franciaországban
The Struggles in France over the Evaluation of Higher Education and Science

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, a system of evaluation of scientific activities was set up under the aegis of the French public research network, in which the teaching and research community in each discipline played a key role. In contrast to this practice, modelled on the institutional evaluation practices of US universities in the 1980s a separate evaluation organization was set up. Focused on SWOT analysis methodology, the main function of the evaluations carried out was to help improve the functioning of higher education institutions. Two decades later, however, a new evaluation agency was set up, operating in all sectors of academia, which not only carried out evaluations based on the SWOT approach, but also undertook to rank research institutions on the basis of various indicators. As with other research policies in France at the time, the new agency’s operation provoked strong protests from the academic world. Following a change of government in 2012, the agency’s ranking function was dropped. Its use was rejected by researchers on the grounds that it could contribute to increasing inequalities between institutions in the allocation of research funding.

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