What’s the gestation period of a TEF?

The Government is, rightly in my view, committed to raising the salience of good teaching in higher education.
Its preferred means for doing so is a new Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). No one yet knows exactly what that will look like.
Only two things are certain: one, that the TEF will be hard to get right; and two, that the Government’s stated timetable is optimistic – arguably to the point of impossibility. More...