Teaching & Learning Iain Mansfield Deputy Director – TEF and Quality, Department for Education

Teaching Excellence Framework Year 2

What is TEF? The White Paper: Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice (May 2016) The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF): assesses the quality of teaching in higher education providers differentiates quality over and above the baseline set by quality assurance White Paper reiterated the Government’s manifesto commitment to introduce a Teaching Excellence Framework The UK would become the first country in the world to create a framework to assess the quality of teaching in HE providers and differentiate quality over and above the baseline set by quality assurance

Purpose of TEF Better inform students’ choices about what and where to study Recognise and reward excellent teaching and raise esteem for teaching Drive up standards of teaching across the sector Improve match of graduate skills with needs of employers and the economy. Students currently have insufficient data to make informed choices – especially on teaching quality. According to HEPI, a third of students would have chosen a different course if they knew then what they do now. So TEF aims to provide students with robust, comparable information on teaching quality for the first time. Students also experience widespread variability in the quality of teaching and support they receive. The TEF will encourage providers to prioritise their teaching quality, providing strong reputational and financial incentives for HE providers to create an environment for excellent teaching to flourish. It will, for the first time, incentivise providers to place as much emphasis on teaching as on research. Students will experience better teaching, and will graduate with improved skills, better placed to match the needs of employers and contribute to the economy.

TEF Year Two: Assessment Criteria Student Outcomes and Learning Gain Learning Environment Teaching Quality Student Engagement Valuing Teaching Employment and Further Study Employability and Transferrable Skills Positive Outcomes for All Resources Scholarship, Research & Professional Practice Personalised Learning Rigour and Stretch Feedback The ten criteria fall under the three aspects of excellence the TEF considers – teaching quality, the broader learning environment, student outcomes and learning gain. There is a specific criteria relating to the value an institution places on teaching. Providers write a narrative to demonstrate excellence across these criteria, which peer assessors and a panel consider alongside metrics and contextual information to assign one of three different ratings to the provider. All Published – rating, the panel’s statement of findings, metrics and submission

Beyond Year Two What’s next? Subject level pilots Design phase Working collaboratively with the sector Engaging with subject bodies, employers and students Pilots during TEF Year Three What’s next? Year Two Lessons learned exercise Further develop metrics package for Year Three Subject level pilots Taught postgraduate TEF by Year Four at the earliest