The universities green paper isn’t really approximately teaching quality,social mobility or student choice – it is all approximately competitionThe modern green paper on higher education highlights three areas that the government wants to address after the stalled reforms of the 2010-15 coalition administration: teaching quality, social mobility and student choice. So it has offered us some sweeping solutions, or like three musketeers battling injustice: the government’s Athos,Porthos and Aramis.
First of all, the green paper highlights that the Department for Business, and Innovation and Skills wants a modern Teaching Excellence Framework that will “encourage a greater focus on tall-quality teaching and graduate employment prospects”. Like Athos,the TEF is handsome but mysterious. Ministers want to bring in a US–style grade point average scheme that uses a 13-point scale and “takes account of student performance during their course, not just in final exams. This can benefit to engage and motivate students to work hard throughout their courses”. It would appear that someone at BIS has never heard of assessed coursework.
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Source: theguardian.com