Peer review of teaching may be what the government needs if it wants to measure quality of teaching.
Peer review of teaching has emerged as a possible measure for teaching quality in the government's indicator framework for higher education performance funding. A seminar on the indicators heard last Thursday that peer review would be a more valuable and accurate measure of teacher quality than the one proposed by the government. There has been vocal opposition to the government's proposed indicator which would count the number of academic staff who hold a graduate certificate in higher education (see page 13). However, peer review of teaching and exactly what that would look like had not yet...
