One in five larger higher education institutions have challenged their rating in the newly revamped Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), with those unhappy with their scores claiming that the process has penalised those with large numbers of disadvantaged students.
The Office for Students (OfS) has announced the results of the 2023 initiative, the first time universities have been rated on their teaching quality since 2019.
Of 128 larger higher education institutions, primarily those with university status, 33 received a gold rating (26 per cent), 66 got silver (52 per cent), and there were four bronzes (3 per cent).
But 25 (20 per cent) are still listed as “pending” because the institutions are challenging the provisional result they received over the summer.
