GuildHE Responds: Independent Review of TEF

GuildHE has today responded to the call for views being conducted as part of Dame Shirley Peace’s independent review of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF).  GuildHE welcomes this review, which provides a useful opportunity to take...
Practitioner-teachers – the value of  dual professionals

Practitioner-teachers – the value of dual professionals

Over the last two decades, as student fees have increased, so too have concerns that students do not receive ‘value for money’ from their education. The Conservatives set out to change this in 2015, through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Drawing on the...
TEF Take 3 – A Whole New Level

TEF Take 3 – A Whole New Level

In July, Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation gave a much trailed speech at the think tank Reform.  Central to the speech was discussion of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). TEF year two, which saw 295 institutions...
TEF Take 3 – A Whole New Level

TEF Take 3 – A Whole New Level

In July, Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation gave a much trailed speech at the think tank Reform.  Central to the speech was discussion of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). TEF year two, which saw 295 institutions...
Removing the fuzzy edges from the TEF

Removing the fuzzy edges from the TEF

Gordon McKenzie, CEO has written a blog, ‘Removing the fuzzy edges from the TEF’, for wonkhe, on the proposed Teaching Excellence Framework emphasising the clarity of purpose, co-design with the sector and need for recognition of multiple dimensions of...