Teaching Excellence Framework

Abstract

The TEF appeared as a pledge in the Conservative Party manifesto for the 2015 general election and since then Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, has stressed that he views the TEF as something which will ensure universities ‘devote as much attention to the quality of teaching as fee-paying students and prospective employers have a right to expect’, and spoke of creating incentives for universities to do so. Johnson has then positioned the TEF as a way of ensuring that students’ expectations about university are met and that the skills the economy needs are being developed.