Teaching quality

Teaching Excellence Framework

The university gained a Silver award in the national Teaching Excellence Framework 2023, recognising the quality of our teaching and student outcomes.

The award confirms that the student experience and student outcomes across all of the our undergraduate provision including apprenticeships are "typically very high quality", delivering excellence above the rigorous standards set for the UK’s higher education providers.

The TEF is a national scheme run by the Office for Students (OfS). It aims to encourage universities to improve and deliver excellence in the areas that students care about the most: teaching, learning and achieving positive outcomes from their studies.

Ofsted inspections of our courses

Ofsted regularly inspects our Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Apprenticeship programmes.

Teaching courses are delivered through our ITE Partnership. In our most recent inspection, the overall effectiveness of the ITE partnership was judged to be ‘outstanding’ in early years, primary and secondary, and ‘good’ in further education. Our key strengths included the outstanding progress made by trainees as a result of training, which enables them to fulfil their potential, and inspirational teaching, tutoring and mentoring that model the best teaching and give trainees the ambition to reach the highest standards.

Find out more about our teaching courses.

In the most recent inspection of our apprenticeship programmes we were judged as ‘good’ for overall effectiveness in all areas which include the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, and outcomes for learners.

Find out about our degree apprenticeships.

Professional accreditation 

Over 200 of our courses are recognised by 61 professional bodies, meaning that our students are strongly connected to professional real-world practice. This is enhanced by placement and volunteering activities that enable them to gain work or practical experience.

Successful completion of a professionally accredited course indicates that the student has reached the occupational standard required to practice that profession.

Professional bodies who accredit our courses include:

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
• British Psychological Society
• Chartered Institute of Marketing
• Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
• General Pharmaceutical Council
• Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• National Council for the Training of Journalists
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Royal Institute of British Architects.

Find out more about individual course accreditations on our course finder.

The University of Brighton is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) – an accreditation achieved by fewer than 6% of business schools globally.

Regular course and subject review

At the University of Brighton we recognise that course development is essential to our academic vitality and sustainability and curriculum updates are regularly introduced by course teams. In addition, our courses are subject to annual monitoring which takes into account student outcomes and student experience and identifies where improvements might be needed on the course.

Each subject area (and related courses) is reviewed every six years. These reviews allow us to reflect on student performance and experience and to plan future subject and course development ensuring that our courses are always among the most current and relevant available.