Response to the BIS Commons Select Committee Inquiry assessing quality in HE
…recommend: Quality Assessment (QA) and the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) should be integrated into a single system. TEF should not by itself be used to determine whether universities can charge undergraduates more for their tuition. The proposed link with tuition fees should be introduced for well-established universities passing a new risk-based QA threshold. Any future QA system should continue to separate the role of assuring quality from…