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 regulating...
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 as an...
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 increasing...
by CDBU Admin | Jul 10, 2018 | Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
Now that all the data used to inform TEF ratings is publicly available, argues Professor D V M Bishop, TEF itself becomes redundant I have been vocal in my criticism of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF): its rationale is disingenuous, it is based on measures...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 8, 2018 | In the News, News round-up, Office for Students, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Tuition fees, Uncategorized
The mental health of both academics and students comes under scrutiny, and a survey shows that most students don’t feel they are receiving value for money when it comes to teaching Cardiff plans review after suicide of ‘overworked’ lecturer Times Higher Education,...
