Teaching Excellence? - Universities in an Age of Student Consumerism

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Students Consumers
Chapter 2: Measuring Teaching Excellence
Chapter 3: The Higher Education Market
Chapter 4: Grand Challenges

About the author

Andrew Gunn is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Prior to this he was at the University of Leeds for many years, where he completed a scholarship funded doctorate in the School of Politics and International Studies, followed by an externally funded Postdoc in the School of Education. Andrew has held visiting positions at several universities internationally, most notably being Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Visiting Researcher at the University of Auckland.

Summary

This new title explores the role of teaching within the modern university and the impact of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), providing a critical analysis of recent policy reforms designed to increase competition and choice in higher education and what these mean for the sector.

Product details

• Authors: Author, Andrew Gunn, Andrew (University of Manchester Gunn, Gunn Andrew
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781526478870
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-7887-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Sage Swifts; Sage Swifts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Lerntechniken, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, universities, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher