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Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017

The results of the 2017 teaching excellence framework in full. Find out which universities were awarded gold, silver or bronze

22 June

TEF: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze

22 June

TEF: ‘meaningless’ results ‘devoid of credibility’, says v-c

22 June

TEF results: Times Higher Education metrics ranking

22 June

Academics ‘need new rights to challenge university governance’

By David Matthews

23 June

Thelmas 2017 results announced

By Chris Havergal

22 June

TEF: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze

By Jack Grove

22 June

The TEF is not perfect but let’s focus on the gains

The teaching excellence framework shines a light on teaching provision, raises its profile, flags up areas for improvement and gives prospective students more information, says Chris Husbands

By Chris Husbands

22 June

Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017

The results of the 2017 teaching excellence framework in full. Find out which universities were awarded gold, silver or bronze

22 June

TEF: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze

22 June

TEF: ‘meaningless’ results ‘devoid of credibility’, says v-c

22 June

TEF results: Times Higher Education metrics ranking

22 June

THE Europe University Rankings 2017: powers behind the throne

Figures reveal the UK to be less of a pacesetter than generally thought and the Netherlands to be a real knockout. Simon Baker investigates who might be continental kings after Brexit

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TEF: what makes a ‘gold’ university?

Comparing the TEF with metrics such as the NSS begins to show how university location may have played a role in the final results

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Video: Peter Mathieson on how universities can measure impact

16 June

Research Excellence Summit

3 July - 5 July 2017

Taichung, Taiwan

Career advice: how to deal with criticism

Coping with negative feedback can be difficult, but it is a crucial part of being an academic, say Kevin O’Gorman and Robert MacIntosh

By Robert MacIntosh

22 June

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News

People protest on February 1, 2017 in Berkeley, California. A speech by controversial Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos, who was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley, was cancelled after protesters and police engaged in violent skirmishes

Academics ‘need new rights to challenge university governance’

After incidents on US campuses where students have called for scholars’ dismissal, professor sees need to update concept of academic freedom

By David Matthews

23 June

Thelmas 2017 results announced

University of West London wins top honour as Strathclyde and Gloucestershire take home two prizes each

By Chris Havergal

22 June

TEF: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze

Many campus-based and post-92 universities claim gold in government-backed league table

A taste of Asian fusion Down Under: why record numbers of overseas students are choosing Australia

International education is Australia’s third-largest export industry, worth more than A$20 billion, and is set for further growth driven by current geopolitics. Jack Grove reports on how international recruitment is playing its part in Australia’s embrace of the Asian century

22 June

‘The Left needs to listen better, and learn a little bit of political strategy from the Right’

Texas-born scholar Angelia Wilson talks to Matthew Reisz about the changing face of political studies, Trump and the Christian Right, and a Bible Belt road trip

How to teach reason properly

To defend the values of reason from political attack we need to be more discriminating about the claims made in its name, says John Hendry

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Opinion

By Chris Husbands

The TEF is not perfect but let’s focus on the gains

The teaching excellence framework shines a light on teaching provision, raises its profile, flags up areas for improvement and gives prospective students more information, says Chris Husbands

22 June

TEF: vice-chancellors’ lack of focus on teaching ‘sold students and staff short’

The TEF will do ‘more than any single step in history’ to change the landscape of teaching in British universities, argues Anthony Seldon

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A head start with mindfulness

Don't dismiss the meditation technique as a fad: its well documented benefits for those in demanding careers make a strong case for teaching it at university, says Craig Hassed

Teaching excellence framework (TEF): higher education sector reaction

By Chris Parr

22 June

Universities must rethink how they communicate in a post-truth world

By Phil Baty

21 June

THE to launch European Teaching Excellence Ranking

By Phil Baty

19 June

Don’t diss the teaching excellence framework

By Edward Peck

21 June

Policy watch

Australian HE reforms need further vetting

Demand-driven funding in higher education but not vocational education will distort both provision and student choice, says Peter Noonan

World insight

Study at home, not abroad: the universities building local relationships

Sara Ladrón de Guevara and Anthony Monaco on why institutions should collaborate with their neighbours to develop ideas and solve local problems

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TEF: how much attention will students pay to the results?

The stamp of government approval means TEF ratings will carry significant weight, writes Chris Havergal

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Of monsters and mentors: PhD disasters, and how to avoid them

Despite all that’s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision

1 June

Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Jane O'Grady

Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, by Laura Kipnis

A polemic against the new McCarthyism in US universities catches Jane O’Grady’s attention

22 June

Leningrad 1941-42: Morality in a City under Siege, by Sergey Yarov

A. W. Purdue chews over a grim account of how civilised nature crumbles when starvation looms

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker

Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin 1852

Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c.1550-1850, by H. G. Cocks

Peter J. Smith lauds a powerful study of the relationship between homoerotic desire and anxieties about social, religious, cultural and even apocalyptic collapse

Messages to sexual assault victims at UCLA

Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, by Laura Kipnis

A polemic against the new McCarthyism in US universities catches Jane O’Grady’s attention

Shelf Life

Books interview: Sarah Eltantawi

The professor of comparative religion and author of on log-cabin Lincoln, the Koran and Islam’s political movements

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What are you reading? – 22 June 2017

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