TEF: why and how? Ideological and operational imperatives driving policy

Ian McNay

Abstract


This piece tries to identify the norigins of the Teaching Excellence Framework, to locate it in the wider framerwork of policy for HE in the UK - more specifically, England - to identify characteristics that will endure whatever tinkering happens as a result of the trial and error approach to be adopted, as with the Research Excellence Framework, from which lessons are drawn.

Keywords


Teaching Excellence Framework; policy drivers

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v10i2.487

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