TEF gets ‘requires improvement’ badge for ‘absence of excellence’

Oh dear. More rubbish from the moribund 'office of students' seeking to jusitify its existence and merely demonstrating what a worthless bunch they are. These sort of antics have wrecked compulsory education, and need to be resisted from intruding into higher education before that too is ruined by small minds who don't understand what education is actually about - replacing an empty mind with an open and enquiring one, able to think and to learn for itself.

So, Ofsted by the back door

The first and foremost thing to do would be to stop the TEF from being used for marketing purposes. While I balk at the idea of some civil servants drawing up the rules of game but on the other hand universities have agency problems of a kind that has no parallel in the corproate world. It is only right that the principal monitors the agent. But there needs to be a better way of doing this, some coarse metrics are not the answer.