We are inching closer to understanding what the subject-level Teaching Excellence Framework will eventually look like—but not as quickly as some might have hoped.
A flurry of activity yesterday morning heralded the arrival of the Department for Education’s response to the subject-level TEF consultation, effectively setting out the department’s plans for the second year of the subject-level pilot, which begins this year.
The headlines in the mainstream media were all about a government crackdown on grade inflation, but the hyperbole was not reflective of what the department actually said, which was: “The Office for Students will use the second year of the subject-level pilots to test some refinements to the grade inflation metric, exploring how it can be improved.”
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