The government’s current TEF uses a cocktail of unhelpful metrics that will only favour ‘top’ universities and allow them to accumulate more in feesUniversity teachers prefer to do research rather than teach their students: steady or false? Probably false. Many academics find teaching more stimulating than research,which can feel a bit like working on an assembly line (grants in, publications out). Even the built-in incentives to value research more highly can be exaggerated.
Publications may be key to winning promotion. But there are penalties too for being a awful teacher. Even in the most research-intensive universities poor grades in the National Student Survey (NSS) matter – increasingly.
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Source: theguardian.com