Intangibles of Higher Education

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a workshop, seminar, course

Description

The international higher education sector has spent considerable resource trying to measure teaching quality. In the UK, an increased focus on accountability and regulation have been drivers using metric-based quantitative methodologies that rely on proxies such as student satisfaction (NSS), and graduate earnings (LEO). This is despite the fact that measuring teaching quality is recognised as a wicked problem- it does not simply boil down to numerical measures (for example, Gibbs, 2010). The conclusions of the multimillion pound HEFCE/ OfS “Learning Gain” initiative also concurred and questioned the robustness of such approaches. Not everything that is important and valued by higher education is easily measurable or quantifiable- HE has a number of so-called intangible assets.
Period22 Nov 2019
Event typeWorkshop
LocationSt Andrews, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • education
  • intangible
  • teaching