HE explained: The value of TEF

Well, it would have been a goal if the goalposts had not moved at the last minute!

The 3 or 4 people who view my blog may recall my warning this July (2017) to keep an eye on the value of your GOLD.

PICTURE BY STUART MILES AT FREEDIGITALPHOTOS.NET

It will only be a short-term problem but those Institutions, encouraged by whim and fashion to think only short-term, it will be all-consuming.  I refer, of course, to the freezing of undergraduate fees at a maximum £9,250 p.a. in the UK for all Institutions - including those prestigious institutions being awarded TEF GOLD in 2017.

Was I being prescient? I could claim that.

It would be too easy, however, to hurl stones at an already discredited and facile scheme.

Rather, let's imagine that Universities in the UK think longer-term.  Let's imagine that they consider Reputational GOLD to be more valuable than short-term fee hikes.  A focus on excellent student learning will achieve that golden glow even where student satisfaction, arbitrary measures and self-reported greatness are still valued by the government.