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Why international students have been TEF-ed out?

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Abstract

he article offers a critical review of the developments in the proposals for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in the UK, focusing particularly on international students. The analysis points to the absence of views and discussions regarding the group of international learners, which warrants the claim that international students have been “TEF-ed out”. The article provides the answer why. The article draws on the coverage of the TEF in the Times Higher Education and relevant literature on international students. It is concluded that the TEF reveals signs of “othering” of international students, pointing to the fundamental problem with the TEF as a national tool that legitimises subordination of this group in recent moves and changes to higher education. The article also discusses Internationalisation at Home (IAH) as a possible metric that could create more equal conditions for cultural plurality in the TEF.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 26, 2016
Publication Date Jul 19, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Educational Review
Print ISSN 0013-1911
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 69
Issue 2
Pages 218-231
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1197183
Keywords TEF, international students, internationalisation at home, higher education, othering
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1197183