by Becca Bashford | Jan 22, 2021 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, REF, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
University and College Union will ballot its members to strike once again if they are forced to resume in-person teaching and return to unsafe campuses. Meanwhile, the government has published its highly anticipated response to the Augar review, and rent strikes rage...
by Becca Bashford | Jul 28, 2020 | Casual staff, Covid-19, Government, In the News, Opinion, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
This blog post was kindly contributed by Professor Dorothy Bishop. It was originally featured on her personal blog, which you can find here. An article in the Times Higher today considers the fate of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). I am a...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Academic freedom, Free speech, Opinion, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University governance
Liz Morrish had an unblemished record of 30 years in academia without so much as a late library book to her name. That all changed when she publicly voiced her opinions on the terrible toll managerialism was having on academics’ mental health – and she found herself...
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...
