Benade, LDevine, NTeschers, C2021-11-252021-11-252021-08-112021-08-11Teachers’ Work, 18(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.24135/teacherswork.v18i1.3241176-6662https://hdl.handle.net/10292/14726Over the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent in their schemes. Universities have been very quick to analyse where the weaknesses in the successive formats gave them opportunities to promote their stronger players, and hide their weaker ones, to the point where the focus of universities seems to have become playing the rules, rather than actually supporting good research.This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and dissemination of ideas.Other form of assessable outputOpenAccess10.24135/teacherswork.v18i1.324