V-cs want rethink over ‘£38 million bill’ for subject-level TEF

"The TEF is now in its third year but still has some way to go before suspicion around its methodology and benefits subsides.", says your email introducing this story. The NSS has been around for far longer, and suspicion around its methodology and benefits has never subsided (for good reason). I suspect the TEF will continue in exactly the same way. We all know neither of them are particularly sound, but policy makers insist on being seen to do *something*, especially when it's a way to impose yet another their bone-headed and tedious marketisation chores on a sector that knows how iniquitous it all is. What a shock that it's yet another waste of effort and money, for so little real gain.

The TEF is just another bully metric device used by the managerialist cult to justify their parasite behaviour off the backs of proper academics who actually can teach, can write, can do research and can attract research funding - unlike their managers who have found a neerdowell niche to exploit at the expense of universities. No lectures or seminars are observed as part of TEF. It's simply more form fiddling and more admin used to derail academic staff - how does that equate to teaching excellence exactly? It doesn't! Kick these managerialist greedy sociopathic parasites out. Ignore these league tables other than to conduct research into those - such as the TEF publishing this very article - that creates its own league table to bully academic staff into stress, depression, heart disease, strokes, cancer, suicide and premature retirement. TEF - don't pour your urine down our backs whilst telling us its raining! Shame on you!