Gresham’s law redux

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  • 19/12/2018

    UK regulator warns on degree grade inflation | Financial Times

    The OFS report on degree class awards at UK English unviersities has attracted lots of press attention today. Rightly so. But the report looks back only a decade. One commentator (bd d’Avranche)  in the FT urges us to delve a little deeper:

    Please take the research back to 1980 and then prepare to be astounded.

    Alison Wolf has written somewhere that the quality of what constituted a particular award was, not so long ago, fairly consistent across UK universities. No longer. Academics should hold their heads in shame, as they have shorted what many of us hold most dear about higher education.