Teaching to the set

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Abstract:

An article in the 26 July issue of ‘Times Higher Education’ holds some interest for academics, educationalists and others concerned with the increased managerialism of the contemporary university. A long-running dispute between the Canadian academics’ union and Ryerson University went into arbitration, with the arbitrator finding that student evaluations of teaching (SETs) could no longer be used for promotion and tenure because SETs are imperfect, unreliable and ‘downright biased’.

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