THE IMPACT OF IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT SYSTEM (PNCD), OVER ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

The practical nature of the current paper is to demonstrate how PNCD implementation at national level, within the university environment, actually affected or not the key elements involved in assessing university professors both as academicians and researchers. Usually university leadership believe that increasing research grant applications and funding, and enhancing research performance, are one and the same thing. Unfortunately this is an error, for many disciplines, and the present obsession with research income is doubtful for example that grant income is not an accurate indicator of research performance and quality.