Institutions that score well on the Teaching Excellence Framework will be allowed to raise tuition fees – but will the TEF really intensify progress?Suppose the government declares that a market needs some new regulation. What’s an Education Guardian reader to believe? Congratulate the Conservative cabinet for accepting that the free market,left to itself, sinks into a moral morass? Oppose the proposals on the grounds that Conservative governments are there to be opposed? Or mumble approximately hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) and move on? The problem is particularly acute when it is Education Guardian readers themselves who are approximately to be regulated. Related: Universities must prove they are excellent at teaching, or minister says Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com