Concern over pandemic’s unequal impact on TEF ratings

TEF is a completely pointless exercise and a huge waste of public funds. Rather the money was spent on valuable public services. Just provides a job for pen pushers who contribute little of value to society.

The best thing would be to cancel the TEF it is just a bunch of bureaucrats pushing for this otherwise their jobs will be axed. Their silly gold, silver and bronze awards are worthless medals with some of the worst Universities getting golds and the best bronzes. That tells you all you need to know about this worthless exercise and waste of time and resources.

TEF is a dead duck - look at what is coming out of OfS and DfE - it's going to be straight metrics - progression and graduate outcomes - no contextual adjustments at all. 2022 onwards is going to be a blood-bath.

Most people involved already know that the TEF 'emperor' has no clothes - as well indicated by the reader comments above. Passing off this system as something which truly measures the quality of teaching in HE is little more than laughable. Let's all end the pretence and devise a system that does what it claims to do - as a credible metric, this 'expert' wouldn't even give it a bronze!