THE podcast: teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2018

One-man band with instruments coloured gold, silver and bronze, and a drum on fire. To illustrate that the Teaching Excellence Framework may be trying to do too much and is at risk of self-combusting.

Is the TEF a solution that has finally found a problem?

The Teaching Excellence Framework’s reliance on existing outcomes and satisfaction data, as proxies for teaching quality, has always invited criticism. But with the OfS now proposing to use it to assess compliance with regulatory conditions, the TEF might have finally found its niche. Juliette Rowsell reports

By Juliette Rowsell

4 November