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This new title explores the role of teaching within the modern university and the impact of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). It provides a critical analysis of recent policy reforms designed to increase competition and choice in higher education and what these mean for the sector. It also surveys the wider landscape and the rise of the student as consumer within HE.
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The teaching mission of the university is at a critical juncture, having been subject to considerable change. In recent years we have seen a shift in a similar vein to ‘war is too important to be left to the generals’ and ‘the economy is too important to be left to economists’, where delivering university teaching is now too important to be left to academics and defining teaching excellence is too important to be left to educationalists. In the midst of transformation, it is easy to overstate how much is new and how much has changed. Most change in the university is incremental. Through an informed analysis, Teaching Excellence? Universities in an Age of Student Consumerism seeks to put into perspective recent changes transforming the ...
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