Challenging the teaching excellence framework : diversity deficits in higher education evaluations / edited by Amanda French, Kate Carruthers Thomas.

Preface: Institutional polishing; Kate Carruthers Thomas and Amanda French Chapter 1. Elusive and elastic, and 'incorrigibly plural': definitions and conceptualisations of teaching excellence John Sanders, Joanne Moore, and Anna Mountford-Zimdars Chapter 2. Operationalising teaching excellence in higher education: from 'sheep-dipping' to 'virtuous practice';John Sanders, Joanne Moore, and Anna Mountford-Zimdars Chapter 3.'Wishing Won't Make It So': Strategic ambiguity, Policy Ad hoc'ery, Deliverology and the Wickidity of TEF's Equality and Diversity Aspirations'; J. Crockford Chapter 4. Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence; Jenny Lawrence, Leanne Hunt, Hollie Shaw and Donovan Synmioe Chapter 5.'It's not what you do, or how well you do it, but who you are': Can student evaluations ever deliver a fair assessment on teaching excellence in higher education? Amanda French Chapter 6 Queering the TEF; Brendan Bartram Chapter 7. Diversity Deficits: Resisting the TEF; Andrew Brogan Postscript; Amanda French and Kate Carruthers Thomas.

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The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)'s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and contested subject. This text offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK's fast-moving policy environment, and increasingly neoliberal higher education sector.

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