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I research and teach about higher education. Now over at @paulashwin.bsky.social
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Back to the future for the TEF? Back to school for OfS?

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By Paul Ashwin, Mark Leach Verified
| The Wonkhe Show Verified
As the new academic year dawns, there is a feeling of “back to the future” for the Teaching Excellent Framework (TEF). And it seems that the Office for Students (OfS) needs to go “back to school” in its understanding of the measurement of educational quality. Both of these feelings come from the OfS Chair’s suggestion that the level of undergraduate tuition fees institutions can charge may be linked to institutions’ TEF results.
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Students’ changing accounts of chemical engineering: a longitudinal study in three countries

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By Paul Ashwin, Ashish Agrawal, Margaret Blackie, Jan McArthur
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT In this article we examine how students’ accounts of chemical engineering change during their undergraduate degrees and whether these changes were related to the educational intentions of their degree programs in two English, two South African and two US universities.
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Ventriloquising the student interest

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By Paul Ashwin, Mark Leach Verified
| The Wonkhe Show Verified
Following the devastating review offered by the 2023 report of the Industry and Regulators Committee of the House of Lords, the Office for Students’ (OfS) proposed strategy makes a great play of being centred around “the student interest”. But while it recognises that students have diverse and changeable views about their interests, it is still significant that it characterises these as “the student interest” rather than “students’ interests”.
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