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 25, 2019 | TEF, Uncategorized
Professor DV Bishop outlines the multiple flaws in the TEF methodology In a previous post I questioned the rationale and validity of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). Here I document the technical and statistical problems with TEF. How...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 15, 2019 | Academic freedom, Free speech, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding
Struggling universities are cutting staff – and a survey reveals just how unpopular TEF is More job cuts on cards unless tuition fee cap lifted, v-c warns Times Higher Education, 15/02/2019, Jack Grove A sector leader has warned that more leading UK universities...
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 | Feb 6, 2019 | TEF, Uncategorized
This is your opportunity to provide input into the CDBU’s response to a “Call for Views”. The closing date for responses is 13 February. You can find out more about the consultation by looking at the background notes at the end of his document. Please put...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | Guest blog, TEF, Uncategorized, Widening access
The marketisation of higher education combined with the government’s efforts to regulate it has led to the worst of both worlds, argues Professor Norman Gowar, former principal of Royal Holloway, University of London Since I am long retired I cannot take part in the...
