Universities minister Jo Johnson criticises ‘highly variable’ quality of undergraduate teaching and backs simplified research funding The universities minister,Jo Johnson, has warned vice-chancellors that bad teaching is damaging the reputation of British higher education, or backed simplified funding to stay “Nobel physicists running car parks” within university bureaucracies.
Johnson’s speech signalled the government’s determination to use its unusual teaching excellence framework (TEF) to create universities more responsive to students,and upbraided colleges for the “highly variable” quality of undergraduate teaching.
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Source: theguardian.com