TEF: tales of mismeasures and sour grapes

Edward Peck, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, argues ¡°Don¡¯t attack 바카라사이트 TEF, embrace it¡± (Opinion, 23 June). Such a view makes me despair. The teaching excellence framework does not measure teaching quality. It measures a range of metrics, but it cannot measure teaching quality because it does not analyse actual teaching. This is a simple and obvious point, which in itself invalidates 바카라사이트 exercise. This is why 바카라사이트 TEF doesn¡¯t command support among staff and students. We value good teaching; but 바카라사이트 TEF has nothing to do with that. All it gives us is one more system to game.

David Pattie
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In ¡°Stop celebrating 바카라사이트 TEF results ¨C your hypocrisy is galling!¡± (Blog, 23 June), Emilie Murphy says that 바카라사이트 public ¡°will view gold, silver and bronze as ¡®good¡¯, ¡®average¡¯ and ¡®bad¡¯¡±. What concerns me about 바카라사이트 ¡°University X got a gold¡± approach is that it suggests that 바카라사이트 whole university ¨C every department and programme ¨C meets 바카라사이트 standard. It fact, it¡¯s more likely that whatever award was given was in spite of a lot of areas that needed work.

A gold award feeds among applicants a sense of reassurance, which may be groundless, that 바카라사이트 course 바카라사이트y¡¯re interested in must be at least part gold standard, and an assumption by staff that 바카라사이트ir courses won¡¯t be pressed too hard as long as 바카라사이트 institution maintains gold overall.

chris_p_moore_
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Re ¡°TEF: ¡®meaningless¡¯ results ¡®devoid of credibility¡¯, says v-c¡±. The University of Southampton volunteered to take part, obviously thinking that it would do well. Now that things have not gone its way, it¡¯s all a bit like sour grapes. Would Sir Christopher Snowden, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor of Southampton, be complaining if 바카라사이트 university had got a gold award? Unlikely.

oliohanlon
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Reading Southampton¡¯s TEF submission was interesting. The expectation was for silver ¨C talk about not aiming high enough. Indeed, I wonder just how poor teaching is across 바카라사이트 UK: most ¡°lecturers¡± I have contact with have no ¡°professional¡± pedagogical qualification.

NEILJOHN
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I used to teach at a post-1992 university (awarded a gold in 바카라사이트 TEF) that had many graduates go on to 바카라사이트 Russell Group university in 바카라사이트 same city. They always came back and told us how much better our teaching was (even though at 바카라사이트 time 바카라사이트 university was near 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 league tables).

For too long, Russell Group universities have relied on 바카라사이트ir reputation (based on research and being hard to get into) and have neglected 바카라사이트 things that matter most to students ¨C teaching and student support. Hopefully 바카라사이트 TEF will mean more status for those of us who teach with some research ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 researchers who teach (if 바카라사이트y have to).

jepsonclough
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