Do you have any evidence base that the teaching at LSE is better than that at Lincoln?
There are no marks for research and there are more silk purses at LSE and more sows ears at Lincoln
Whilst it is true that students who go to top performing unis and RGs can teach themselves content more easily and so students get good grades regardless of apparent poor teaching standards,but no i have no proof that lincoln`s teaching is worse than LSEs, but i find it hard to believe. What do you think of the TEF?
I was thinking of applying to Liverpool, but now I see it got bronze I'm thinking of doing my physics degree at the Chicken Shed Theatre Trust, which got silver.
Whilst it is true that students who go to top performing unis and RGs can teach themselves content more easily and so students get good grades regardless of apparent poor teaching standards,but no i have no proof that lincoln`s teaching is worse than LSEs, but i find it hard to believe. What do you think of the TEF?
I am sure the methodology will be improved over time if it lasts, but I think it is an important antidote to the existing league tables that have allowed weak teaching universities to hide behind things that are irrelevant to the undergraduate experience rather than improve their teaching performance. At the end of the day it was going to be obvious that LSE was going to hammered and UCL was going to be, at best average, because that has been known anecdotally for years.
The Russell Group has been peddling for years the nonsense that it is important that students are taught where cutting edge research is undertaken when they know full well that these cutting edge researchers are doing little of the teaching. All these American parents who send their children to eyewateringly expensive liberal arts colleges prior to attending elite grad schools are unconcerned about cutting edge research being conducted in proximity to their offspring. The same is true for European governments which have poured money into student-free research institutes.
I don't think anyone is going to go to Lincoln in preference to LSE, but it is going to have an impact and the low scorers will struggle to claim excellence against their better performing peers.
We will have to see what the Advertising Standards Authority now does. It hammered Reading recently for claiming to be in the best 1% of universities in the world, which wasn't a bad claim but which rested on the unverified assumption that all the universities in the world not ranked by the various international rankings were less good than those that were (or at least ranked below Reading)
I was thinking of applying to Liverpool, but now I see it got bronze I'm thinking of doing my physics degree at the Chicken Shed Theatre Trust, which got silver.
LJMU has thrown her neighbour a life ring with BSc Physics and Astronomy being taught in collaboration for several years...