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

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

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

Less advantaged teenagers are more likely to decide not to attend university than their more advantaged peers, new research has found

Key figures from the world of higher education respond to the publication of the TEF results. This page will be updated regularly – please refresh the page for latest response

Full TEF results for all the universities in the TEF ranked by main award and core metrics

We talk doping, ‘slithering’ through university and breaking world records with the former double Olympic champion

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

Robert J. Mayhew finds the pioneering environmental thinker’s meditations on population, resources and ecology more relevant than ever

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

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

Sir Michael Barber says that classes in English universities could be ‘more inspiring’

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

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

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