Universities: Staff

(asked on 8th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research has been undertaken by (a) the Government, (b) HEFCE, (c) the HE Academy and (d) other government-funded agencies on the relationship between levels of casualised, non-permanent university teaching staff and teaching quality.


This question was answered on 16th March 2016

On teaching, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) produced a literature review ‘Shifting academic careers: implications for enhancing professionalism in teaching and supporting learning’ published in 2014. We have also asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to look into the contractual status of academic staff to investigate how this could be measured and potentially feed into Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessments for future years.

On research, ‘The Impact of Doctoral Careers’ (2014) was funded by RCUK, HEFCE and HEFCW.

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