... and what sense parents, often these days having contributed financially towards the costs of their children’s university education, make of this idea. The concern of our research, reported in this paper, was with the development of understandings of parents’ sense-making when it comes to teaching...

...Trudi Cooper Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore: why the concept of teaching excellence has been uncritically accepted into the lexicon of university management; and how it has been used to co-opt university teaching staff into supporting the myth that teaching quality can...