The Emperor has no clothes

Authors

  • Chris Ian Rust Oxford Brookes University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v10i2.406

Keywords:

TEF, Teaching, Excellence,

Abstract

This piece offers the reasoned opinion that the proposed metrics and methodology for the TEF will not validly assess teaching excellence

Author Biography

Chris Ian Rust, Oxford Brookes University

  Chris Rust is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at Oxford Brookes where he worked for over 25 years.  He was Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, and Deputy Director of the Human Resource Directorate from 2001-2011. Between 2005-10 he was also Deputy Director for two Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - ASKe (Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange) and the Reinvention Centre for undergraduate research (led by Warwick University).  For his last three years, he was Associate Dean (Academic Policy).  

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2016) Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility & Student Choice. London: HMSO.

Surridge, P. (2009) The National Student Survey three years on: What have we learned? York: Higher Education Academy.

Yorke, M. and Langden, B. (2004) Retention and student success in Higher Education. Maidenhead: SRHE/OUP.

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Published

05/15/2017

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017): Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching

Section

Opinion Pieces

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