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- Further education colleges celebrate TEF ratings
Further education colleges celebrate TEF ratings

Further education colleges across the country are celebrating today as the Office for Students' Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) ratings are published.
The ratings, which are awarded by a panel of independent academic experts and student representatives, are designed to identify excellent undergraduate teaching and student outcomes and help prospective students to choose their courses.
In colleges with a gold rating student experience and outcomes are typically outstanding, in silver rated colleges student experience and outcomes are typically very high-quality, and in bronze the student experience and outcomes are typically high-quality with some very high-quality features.
Around 39 colleges have been awarded a rating in this year’s TEF, six of which were gold, 22 were silver and 11 were bronze.
Dr Arti Saraswat, Senior Policy Manager, Higher Education at Association of Colleges, said: “I want to offer my congratulations to all the further education colleges who have received a rating from the Office for Students in this year’s exercise. Today’s TEF results are a testimony to the excellent teaching and positive student experience for those studying higher education at further education colleges. Participation in TEF is not mandatory for many FE colleges however colleges are deeply committed to delivering high quality teaching and delivering positive outcomes for students.”
The following colleges received ratings:
Gold
Weston College of Further and Higher Education
South Devon College
City College Plymouth
Morley College Limited
The Northern School of Art
Blackpool and Fylde College
Silver
Cornwall College
Solihull College and University Centre
The Oldham College
Middlesbrough College
Bridgwater and Taunton College
Lincoln College
Leeds College of Building
New Collage Durham
South Essex College of Further and Higher Education
Myerscough College
The Sheffield College
DN Colleges Group
City College Norwich
Bradford College
York College
TEC Partnership
University Centre Peterborough
Truro and Penwith College
Furness College
RNN Group
Loughborough College
DCG (Derby College)
Bronze
Blackburn College
Trafford College Group
Barnsley College
Tyne Coast College
Farnborough College of Technology
City of Sunderland College
Nottingham College
Leicester College
Reaseheath College
East Sussex College
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group