ABSTRACT This article argues that recent government interventions in higher education – some based in consumer law and others in the form of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) have failed to put prospective students in a position to make informed choices about courses or universities. Consumer law-based interventions do not give students all the information they need, although they may help to improve the standard of information and to control marketing excess. The TEF, with its focus on outputs rather than inputs, similarly misses the mark. These failures are bad for students and, to the extent that higher education is a market which depends on students making informed choices, bad for higher education.

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在 TEF 和基于消费者法律的干预之后——未来的高等教育学生现在能够做出明智的选择吗？

摘要 本文认为，最近政府对高等教育的干预——一些基于消费者法，另一些以卓越教学框架 (TEF) 的形式，未能让未来的学生能够对课程或大学做出明智的选择。基于消费者法律的干预并没有为学生提供他们需要的所有信息，尽管它们可能有助于提高信息标准并控制营销过度。TEF 专注于输出而不是输入，同样没有达到目标。这些失败对学生不利，在某种程度上，高等教育是一个依赖于学生做出明智选择的市场，对高等教育不利。