A video of Dorothy Bishop presenting her Distinguished Lecture ‘What’s wrong with our Universities and will the Teaching Excellence Framework put it right?’ is available here.
The lecture took place on Wednesday 1 February on Highfield Campus and addressed the following:
- The arguments made in the Green Paper in favour of introducing a TEF
- The formal responses to TEF proposals in the Green Paper
- Specific criticism of the statistical basis of the proposed TEF
- Cost-benefit analysis of the TEF
You can go straight to the video by clicking on the arrow in the picture below.
Dorothy Bishop, FBA, FMedSci, FRS is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she heads a research programme into children’s communication impairments.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Council for Defence of British Universities, and writes a popular blog where she shares personal reactions to scientific and academic matters.
A further biography of Dorothy and the presentation slides can be found here.
During his series of addresses in November 2016, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Christopher Snowden touched upon the future of Higher Education and the potential impact of TEF.
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