The Higher Education Funding
Council for England has today (22 June 2017) published
the first set of ratings for the Teaching Excellence Framework
(TEF).
It has revealed that the majority of UK universities are offering
quality teaching to their students - 59 providers were rated
‘gold’, 116 rated ‘silver’ and 56 rated ‘bronze’.
The ratings will help students decide which university or college
to apply to and encourage teaching and learning excellence across
the UK.
Universities Minister said:
These results, highlighting the extraordinary strengths of our
higher education system, will help students choose which
university or college to study at.
The Teaching Excellence Framework is refocusing the sector’s
attention on teaching – putting in place incentives that will
raise standards across the sector and giving teaching the same
status as research.
Students, parents, employers and taxpayers all have a shared
interest in ensuring higher education equips the next
generation of graduates for success.
Universities taking part have been assessed by an expert panel in
3 areas:
- teaching quality
- the learning environment
- the educational and professional outcomes achieved by
students
As set out in its white paper, Success as a knowledge
economy (May 2016), the government will shortly begin a
lessons learned exercise into this first trial year of
the TEF.
The findings of the lessons learned exercise will inform the
operation of the TEF in 2018 and the
intention to move to subject level assessments.
