Teaching Excellence Framework 2027: strengthen your submission
A connected evidence base for TEF
The next Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is expected in 2027, with outcomes likely to carry increased funding and reputational impact. Now is the time for providers to strengthen their data foundations and build a robust, credible evidence base.
By connecting learning analytics, digital capability development and graduate outcomes insight, institutions can address TEF metrics directly and demonstrate the quality of teaching, learning and student support.
Our TEF guide explains how to build a future‑focused evidence base for TEF 2027, grounded in data maturity, analytics and outcomes insight, and aligned with sector expectations.
Why Jisc?
Our services help you demonstrate impact across student engagement, teaching quality, and graduate success, giving you the confidence that your TEF submission will stand up to scrutiny and showcase your institution’s strengths.
- Direct TEF alignment: our services map precisely to TEF elements
- Trusted national partner: as the UK’s digital partner for education, we offer sector‑wide expertise, benchmarking, and tools that strengthen submissions and reduce risk
- Save time: our ready‑made dashboards, frameworks, and analytics reduce the burden of evidence gathering
Enhancing teaching quality with digital innovation
Our building digital capability tools help staff and students develop essential digital skills, turning capability growth into clear TEF evidence. By embedding innovative pedagogy and aligning skills with employer needs, it strengthens learning environments and improves graduate outcomes.
How it aligns with TEF:
- Teaching quality: staff capability profiles and discovery tools support effective digital pedagogy
- Learning environment: student and staff digital skills development enhances blended and digital learning
- Progression to employment/further study: role specific frameworks align student digital skills with employer needs
- Educational gains: personal data lets users compare completion points and confidence gains, while institutions track year-on-year confidence across staff and students
Analytics for academic support and continuation
Our learning analytics tools translate student data into clear evidence for TEF metrics, helping you improve retention, outcomes, and wellbeing.
How it aligns with TEF:
- Academic support: dashboards and engagement metrics enable targeted early interventions and tracking support through interaction logging and secure sharing of information
- Assessment and feedback: tracks student assessment submission for early warning of disengagement and assessment outcomes to understand impact
- Learning environment: engagement data reveals how students use both physical and online learning resources
- Continuation rates: engagement metric modelling identifies students at risk of dropping out
- Educational gains: measures engagement and progression over time
Employability data as TEF evidence
Our discover graduate outcomes dashboards and GO consultancy give you the tools and expertise to understand graduate destinations, benchmark performance, and strengthen employability strategies.
How it aligns with TEF:
- Progression to employment/further study: dashboards reveal graduate destinations and employment trends
- Educational gains: year on year comparisons track graduate progression, evidencing measurable development over time
- Learning environment: insights highlight how student characteristics and experiences influence outcomes
- Graduate success: benchmarking against sector peers demonstrates institutional impact on employability and long-term student success
Digital transformation as TEF evidence
Digital transformation helps providers demonstrate how teaching, learning environments and student support are improving in a connected and sustainable way. By aligning curriculum design, systems, digital capability and data use, it provides credible evidence of enhancement over time rather than isolated initiatives.
How it aligns with TEF:
- Teaching quality: curriculum and assessment redesign supported by effective digital pedagogy
- Learning environment: improved accessibility, system reliability and alignment between physical and digital learning spaces
- Student outcomes: stronger engagement, progression and continuation supported by integrated data and analytics
- Educational gains: evidence of improvement through capability development, curriculum change and measured impact over time
Ready to strengthen your TEF 2027 submission?
Your Jisc relationship manager is here to help you turn data, digital capability, and graduate outcomes into powerful TEF evidence.
Contact your relationship manager to start building your evidence base.