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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…
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…
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…
It’s been a long time, August 2019, since I submitted the Independent Review of TEF to the Secretary of State for Education and a lot of water has flown under Westminster, and other bridges, since that time. The review identified how important TEF had been in drawing attention to the…
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.
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…
On Wednesday 21 June 2023 from 12.15pm to 1.45pm, evasys is hosting a ‘Lunch & Learn’ webinar, supported by HEPI, on ‘How to evidence educational gains’, which will see a panel of experts from across the HE sector come together to discuss the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) submissions and best…
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…
As we await the outcomes of Dame Shirley Pearce’s review of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), it is worth reflecting on what Sir Philip Augar’s Post 18 Review of Education and Funding tells us about the possible future of the TEF. In doing so, it is first worth considering four…
HEPI Roundtable Dinner supported by Elsevier with guest speaker Professor James Wilsdon, Professor of Research Policy, Department of Politics, and Director of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.