Teaching REF would lead to time wasted ‘giving tuna sandwiches to assessors’

Another fine product from the nonsense factory that is HE policy in the UK. It's already been established that the REF is a bloated, inaccurate and largely unconstructive exercise. Now, the Tories want to add a Teaching REF? The conducting of this boondoggle, due to the added complications of student involvement (i.e. we would be measuring the experience of hundreds of thousands, rather than the contribution of tens of thousands) would be equally pointless, but with the added benefit of being prohibitively expensive. In any case, much as the REF is now, this will serve largely as a management tool to flog an already overworked and underpaid cohort of academic staff. Oh, and we'll likely have to hire _lots_ of new administrators (who neither teach nor conduct research, the university's central mission) to handle this. It is obviously hypocritical of the Conservative government to cut funding, demand efficiency, expect greater performance and seek savings, all while proposing to introduce a new and incredibly expensive and time-consuming layer of bureaucratic claptrap that will actively _detract_ from time spent on teaching. Stupid, wasteful, counter-productive and worthless.