Dear Stephen Thank you for your letter about the delay to the release of Home Office’s Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales publication. I agree with you that it is important for producers of statistics to be transparent and open about delays to reduce any threat to the trustworthiness of the statistics. In this […]
Dear Sylvia and Jonathan Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework Your predecessors as President and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professors Deborah Ashby and Guy Nason, wrote to me in March 2019 expressing their concerns about the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), in particular that it did not meet the standards of trustworthiness, […]
Dear Professor Ashby and Professor Nason, TEF holding reply to Professor Deborah Ashby and Professor Guy Nason – RSS Thank you for your letter of 5 March 2019. I appreciate you taking the the time to share your concerns about the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). I have asked my team to look […]
Dear Ed, We are writing to you on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to express our serious concerns about the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) produced by the Department for Education/Office for Students (DfE/OfS). The TEF is in large part a statistical artefact, and we are concerned that it does not […]