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Subject Level teaching excellence framework (TEF) consultation response and letter

We responded, with the Royal Society of Biology, to the Subject Level teaching excellence framework (TEF) consultation launched by the Department for Education. The Society also wrote a letter with the Pharmacy Schools Council and the British Toxicology Society, calling for the separation of Pharamcology from Pharmacy and Toxicology in the subject groupings for assessment. 

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Published: 21 May 2018 in

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