Government to back student limits for ‘low-quality’ universities

Good news. Time to cut away the dead wood of Higher Education. A whole host of low-quality "academics" in joke subject areas need putting out of a job, and quickly, if we're to save the sector.

Potential negative impact on widening participation in vocational programmes like nursing should not be overlooked (not everything is about so called 'joke' subject areas). TEF is a very blunt tool for such significant decisions. Also asking providers to improve by restricting access to cash seems potentially counter intuitive. Glad to see franchised provision will be sorted in some form though. As always its the details that will determine how effectively the new approach will work. I am sure there will be plenty of debate over the coming months on all of this.

Addressing the issue of poor quality teaching and courses makes sense, but as already noted, the TEF must be a reliable tool to help achieve this, and STEM courses should be subjected to the same level of scrutiny as any other course.

So, poor student progress is SOLELY due to the quality of education? Student motivation, engagement, and background do not play ANY role at all?

Again dodgy ill-defined metrics, what is "good" or "poor" quality anyway? How is it defined? By whom? How is it measured? By whom? Is this the OfS trying to dream up reasons why it should continue to exist?