If the teaching excellence framework is worth doing, it’s worth doing well

The problem with the TEF is that it has not been demonstrated that it *is* worth doing. see http://cdbu.org.uk/shaky-foundations-of-the-tef/ (and the longer CDBU response to the Green Paper). What is needed is not a massive exercise that tries to hammer out some acceptable way of assessing teaching quality, but rather a cost/benefit analysis for TEF. No credible arguments have been given for the introduction of a huge, new bureaucratic exercise, and the economic and opportunity costs are being ignored.