Subject-level teaching excellence framework plans ‘flawed’
UK universities have criticised proposals for discipline-level assessment in the teaching excellence framework
UK universities have criticised proposals for discipline-level assessment in the teaching excellence framework
Royal Academy of Engineering drive to link advancement to good teaching could be a better way to drive up standards than the TEF
Call for other sector agencies to take on research from regulator
Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions
The TEF results will not halt universities’ unease about the exercise, the prospect of gaming the system or anxiety about long-term consequences
Key figures from the university world respond to the higher education White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy
International comparisons of universities still have their detractors, but the appetite for them continues to grow. Phil Baty traces their roots and looks at how they are increasing in number and...
Performance targets are spreading despite the criticism that they destroy freedom of inquiry, Phil Baty writes. "A university is not a corporation making razor blades for a price in a particular...