Assessing the success of training based on the happiness of trainees
Universities should be at least partly assessed based on the satisfaction of former students with the jobs that they are now in. This is why it is slightly puzzling that PBRF has not been considered within the scope of this review. Currently, training of people within the workforce is largely driven by universities, where PBRF forms an appreciable chunk of funding. PBRF is skewed to rewarding publications rather than, for example, relationship building with local communities or ensuring trainees are going on to satisfying downstream careers. Without a holistic focus on all sources of funding, universities will continue to train students in an environment that prioritizes journal articles rather than communities and people, and these attitudes will propagate into the workforce at large through the people lucky enough to stay in the RSI sector.
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