TEF: bronze for BPP, but other alternative providers get gold

University of Buckingham and University of Law grab top ratings in UK’s new teaching assessment

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John Elmes
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#1 Submitted by dorothy... on June 22, 2017 - 2:10am
It seems you can teach pseudoscience, but provided your students are satisfied, you can be regarded as a silver-rated institution: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/chiropractic/

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