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Food for thought: takeaways from the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Dr Helena Lim , Head of Opportunities at evasys. The 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outcomes were announced on 28 September 2023, figure 1. At that time, just over 20 per cent of provider ratings were still ‘pending’ as they were being finalised by the TEF panel.

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Desperately Seeking Educational Gain, the Dark Matter of Learning and Teaching

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Dr Helena Lim , Head of Opportunities at evasys. Since its inception in 2017, the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has become an integral part of assessing and recognising the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in the English higher education system.

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The regulation of student education: are the quality wars back?

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Roger Brown, former Vice-Chancellor of Solent University. The TEF would now be run by a new agency, the Office for Students (OfS) with the job of increasing competition and protecting students and which would be more accountable to the Government.

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It is the OfS categories, not institutions, that ‘require improvement’

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There are currently 53 institutions of higher education whose TEF results are marked as “pending” on the official OfS website. The TEF guidelines are very clear. 41): “the TEF panel have the option to not award a rating where there is an absence of excellence above our high quality minimum requirements.” She was ignored.

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Weekend Reading: Increasing tuition fees linked to an institution’s TEF award

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Institutions that came in the top two categories – Gold and Silver – were allowed the full inflationary uplift, as were those in the Bronze category, at least for the first iteration of the TEF, with the idea that in time they might be allowed only 50 per cent of it. per cent to £9,250. At the time, its demise was unlamented.

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Cry Freedom: An Addendum

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor James Tooley , Vice Chancellor at the University of Buckingham. In that short book, I did not tackle the potential impact on the argument of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act of 2023. You can sign up to the webinar here. This brief Addendum sets out to do precisely that.

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Graduate employability takes top spot in the battle of the metrics – so it’s time we understood it better

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This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Portsmouth, and Tom Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth. This is due to the contribution Graduate Outcomes has to TEF and B3 measures (at least 25% of the metrics contributing).