by CDBU Admin | Apr 2, 2020 | Covid-19, Marketisation, Teaching Excellence Framework, Uncategorized
Despite the enormous contribution universities are making to addressing the coronavirus crisis, years of enforced competition have placed them under intense financial pressure. Now is the time for the sector to recover its core purpose, argues Professor James Ladyman...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 30, 2020 | National Student Survey, REF, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
The REF is partly responsible for universities’ present ills, but if we get rid of it, we need to find an alternative model for allocating research funding. Norman Gowar, former principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, suggests a way forward As always it was...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 30, 2019 | Admissions, Augar Review, Book review, Casual staff, Grade inflation, Higher Education and Research Act, Marketisation, Office for Students, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Professor David Midgley reviews English Universities in Crisis: Markets without Competition, by Jefferson Frank, Norman Gowar and Michael Naef The policy objectives against which this book measures the effectiveness of the current system for funding and...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | News round-up, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
The long-awaited review of university tuition fees might not now be published until May – and vice-chancellors make some robust criticisms of the potential cost of subject-level TEF £7,500 tuition fees plan faces Brexit delay BBC, 01/03/2019, Sean Coughlan The...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 13, 2019 | Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
The Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework represents a lamentable failure to engage in critical thinking, argues Professor DV Bishop If you criticise the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), you run the risk of being dismissed...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 26, 2018 | Brexit, Government, Grade inflation, News round-up, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
More discouraging news on Brexit, and UK universities’ ties to Saudi Arabia have come under scrutiny Universities’ Saudi ties under scrutiny after Khashoggi killing Times Higher Education, 26/10/2018, Ellie Bothwell Western universities are under...
