The UK Government has proposed a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for the higher education sector. There is a consultation "green" paper" called "Fulfilling our potential: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice" (Cm 9141PDF, 2.15MB, 105 pages, 6 November 2015). Comments close incentives for excellent teaching, government and universities could simply ensure the teachers are trained, at least to the level of school teachers.
"drive up teaching standards and give students more information
through a new Teaching Excellence Framework that will encourage a
greater focus on high quality teaching and graduate employment prospects
widen participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
and encourage providers to increase focus on supporting all students
through their course and into employment or further study. A new Social
Mobility Advisory Group would report to the Universities Minister with a
plan to meet the Prime Minister’s ambitions to increase the proportion
of disadvantaged students entering higher education and increase the
number of BME students by 20% by 2020
enable students to choose from a wider range of high-quality
higher education providers by making it less bureaucratic to establish a
new university through faster access to Degree Awarding Powers and
University Title
establish a new Office for Students to promote the student
interest and value for money, and reduce the regulatory burden on the
sector ...
Through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
there will be stronger incentives for excellent teaching and students
will have more information about the type of teaching they can expect
and their likely career paths after graduation. The TEF
will use measures such as student satisfaction, student retention rates
and graduate job prospects. Higher education institutions providing
high quality teaching would be able to increase tuition fees in line
with inflation. Those that fail to meet expectations would risk losing
additional fee income."
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