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  • Weekend Reading: Increasing tuition fees linked to an institution’s TEF award

    18 May 2024 by Jo Johnson

    A good university funding system for England should have three primary goals: Measured against these objectives, the system Tony Blair introduced 25 years ago – a time-limited and income-contingent graduate contribution towards the repayment of heavily-subsidised loans – is the least bad option. There is nothing wrong with the present…

  • ‘Distinctive’ and ‘diverse’: a response to the TEF statement release

    6 December 2023 by Emily Pollinger and Robert Eaton

    Whilst the (gold) dust may have settled following the announcement of TEF 2023 ratings in late September what might last week’s November release of TEF panel summary statements, alongside provider and student submissions, tell us about the rationale behind the awards?  In a previous HEPI blog, Emily reflected on the…

  • Weekend Reading: TEF Results week – honestly, I quite enjoyed it!

    30 September 2023 by Rosie Scott-Ward

    Professionally, I have had the privilege to ‘grow up’ in a unique environment – a relatively small and specialist college offering Higher Education (HE), which five years ago gained University Title, having achieved Taught Degree Awarding Powers in 2017.  Over the 25+ years, I have seen a few higher education…

  • TEF scores gold overall, but categories require improvement

    29 September 2023 by Susanna Kalitowski

    University Alliance has long been something of a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) superfan. For years it made no sense for our higher education system to have a REF to measure research quality but no TEF to assess excellence in teaching. The vast majority of students who experience higher education do…

  • Seven (very) early thoughts on today’s TEF results

    28 September 2023 by Nick Hillman

    England’s Office for Students has, this morning, published the latest Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) results for higher education institutions. Here, the HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, provides some very early thoughts on their importance.

  • TEF results: the challenges of evidencing Educational Gain

    28 September 2023 by Emily Pollinger

    Up and down the land in 2022, Word documents were opened, “Educational Gain” typed at the top, then the authors paused for a careful think. How to distil the purpose and value of higher education into this definition? How to differentiate our definition so that what makes our educational offering…

  • OfS, TEF and Student Outcomes

    4 February 2022 by Scott Kelly

    Scott Kelly lectures in British Politics at New York University in London and has worked for many years as a policy adviser to the Rt Hon. John Hayes MP, who was Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (2010-12). He previously worked for the Learning and Skills Network and…