Mr. Bloomberg announced the new impact schools after a news conference in Brooklyn yesterday to announce an investigation into stores illegally selling box cutters, spray paint and laser pointers to minors.
The new "impact" element of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) has been the spur to action.
However, the DWP's new impact assessment for the reforms, warned this would not always be the case.
Policymakers themselves must recognise the value to a university, under the new impact agenda, of being seen to influence policy.
"We detected 222 new impact craters and found 33% more craters with a diameter of at least 10m than predicted" by earlier models, the researchers concluded.
And so the Rockefeller Foundation and other groups have created the new Impact Reporting and Investment Standards, a set of metrics that make causes rigorously comparable.
In the digital age, Chariau says, drawing has new impact: "Today there are so many images that it's almost impossible to find one that strikes the imagination.
And yet, while guns have lost none of their efficiency in translation, the act of shooting in virtual reality has gained a new impact.
Nevertheless, bureaucrats are already creating new impact metrics, especially for next year when the policy is due to be used in the assignment of core funds to higher education institutions.
There is growing controversy around the new "impact" measure in the Research Excellence Framework, by which university departments must demonstrate their effectiveness at communicating their research to the public – funding depends on it.
Limited time for debate and the lack of a new impact assessment means that MPs are being denied their constitutional role to properly scrutinise his plans for the NHS.
