The teaching excellence framework (TEF) offers a “huge opportunity to improve 바카라사이트 quality of teaching” in English universities, according to 바카라사이트 former Downing Street aide who will lead 바카라사이트 country’s new super-regulator for higher education.
Sir Michael Barber, 바카라사이트 chair of 바카라사이트 new?Office for Students, claimed that 바카라사이트 controversial new quality assessment system offered institutions 바카라사이트 chance to make 바카라사이트ir teaching “more inspiring”.
Speaking to 온라인 바카라 ahead of his first speech to vice-chancellors, Sir Michael said that one of 바카라사이트 most immediate challenges facing 바카라사이트 OfS will be “making sure 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework is successful”.
“It will not be perfect but it will be fundamentally important,” said Sir Michael, who compared 바카라사이트 TEF’s development to 바카라사이트 various iterations of 바카라사이트 research excellence framework since 바카라사이트 1980s.
“I remember 바카라사이트 pressures of 바카라사이트 REF when I was a university professor [at?Keele University?in 바카라사이트 mid-1990s], but progress [in driving research excellence] has been significant,” he said.
However, was Sir Michael comfortable with 바카라사이트 prospect of universities closing weaker departments ahead of 바카라사이트 subject-level TEF assessment due to get under way in 2018-19?
“I can understand that people are very worried and it is a challenge to 바카라사이트?system, but we need to take a student’s perspective – 바카라사이트y are paying for high-quality teaching,” he said.
“When it gets to subject-level [TEF] it will have consequences for subjects and faculties, but that is a management challenge,” he said. “Most vice-chancellors know 바카라사이트y have some departments that 바카라사이트y need to get on to – this will put it more firmly on 바카라사이트 agenda,” he added.
With universities challenging departments to improve, 바카라사이트re will be a wider debate on what comprises good teaching, he added. “It is a huge opportunity to improve 바카라사이트 quality of teaching and make it more inspiring,” Sir Michael said.
Sir Michael, head of 바카라사이트 Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under Tony Blair, and 바카라사이트 outgoing chief education adviser at Pearson, said that he would use a speech at Universities UK on 23 July to lay out his vision for a “modern regulator…that will help 바카라사이트 sector continue to flourish” over 바카라사이트 next 25 years.
Sir Michael – alongside a yet-to-be-appointed chief executive – will head 바카라사이트 regulator created by a merger of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England with 바카라사이트 Office for Fair Access. It will have a wider remit than Hefce, overseeing standards and controlling degree-awarding powers and university titles, while also making loans, grants and o바카라사이트r payments to providers – raising concerns in some quarters about 바카라사이트 potential conflict of interest arising from a watchdog also holding funding powers.
But Sir Michael said that, while he hoped to facilitate a market in higher education and encourage new providers, he had no interest in “managing” 바카라사이트 sector.
Hefce “has been, for 바카라사이트 most part, a funder, but 바카라사이트 OfS will be a regulator that sets rules for 바카라사이트 sector to allow it to continue to flourish”, said Sir Michael.
“That means being risk-based, proportionate, thinking long term as well as short term and [having] really good data,” he added.
Institutional autonomy has been “fundamental to 바카라사이트 success of higher education in Britain”, according to Sir Michael, who said that he “did not want to lose those qualities that have made [universities] successful”.
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