{"id":4456,"date":"2016-12-09T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:02:19","slug":"he-policy-update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/12\/09\/he-policy-update-7\/","title":{"rendered":"HE policy update"},"content":{"rendered":"
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and Research Excellence Framework (REF)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Vinney, has a new blog<\/a> on the HEPI (the Higher Education policy Institute) website on research and teaching and how REF and the TEF work together, with some proposals for change in how the REF is implemented in 2021, and views on subject level TEF, which is proposed for year 3 (informal consultation has already started).<\/p>\n

And on Thursday afternoon the HEFCE REF consultation<\/a> on the implementation of the REF 2021 was published \u2013 with a response date of 17 March 2017.\u00a0 The proposals incorporate the principles from the Stern Review. You can read the background on our BU Policy & Public Affairs page on the Stern Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Wonkhe have a useful summary<\/a> of the proposals and David Sweeney from HEFCE has written for Wonkhe on why the sector needs to engage in the consultation \u2013 contact policy@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a> if you would like to be involved in preparing our response, we will be working on this with RKEO.<\/p>\n

Wonkhe have published an interesting analysis of the TEF metrics<\/a> and benchmarking and how they work complete with data about the current likely outcomes of the TEF.\u00a0 Wonkhe report that Professor John Raftery, vice chancellor for London Metropolitan University, has written<\/a> for the Telegraph on the TEF, calling for the metrics to include a measure for number of qualified teachers in universities\u00a0 \u2013 something BU also called for in our TEF consultation response.<\/p>\n

An expert in dyslexia has written a blog for Wonkhe<\/a> on potential benefits for disabled students as a result of the implementation of the Teaching Excellence Framework with its focus on \u201csplit\u201d metrics.<\/p>\n

Widening Participation and Social Mobility<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Social Mobility Commission report<\/a> has been issued looking at social and ethnic inequalities in post-16 choices.\u00a0 It examines social gender and ethnic inequalities.<\/p>\n

The report found significant differences between poorer children and wealthier children living in the same neighbourhood with the same GCSE results. This Government press release<\/a> states that \u201cbright children from poorer backgrounds are far less likely to go to university or study A levels that could get them into top universities than their wealthier counterparts \u2013 even if they live in the same neighbourhood and achieve similar results at GCSE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some other key findings include:<\/p>\n