Natfhe delegates rejected a plan to mount a "total boycott" of the 2008 research assessment exercise. The conference carried two motions seeking the scrapping of the RAE, which was said to be "distorting academic life and scholarship" and allowing rich universities to get richer at the expense of the poor. But a boycott was felt to be unworkable.
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