HEFCE boss had doubts over ‘tight timescale’ for TEF

In an exclusive interview with HE, the former head of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has claimed she had doubts the Teaching Excellence Framework could be delivered on time.

In her first public interview since leaving HEFCE, Madeleine Atkins – now master of Lucy Cavendish college at the University of Cambridge – told HE that HEFCE had worried about the “very tight timescale” for the implementation of the TEF.