Unstoppable Rise of the 2.1 Degree Indicates It Is Time for Reform of Student Assessment Methods
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Employers' growing insistence on a minimum 2.1 degree (The Business supplement, The Herald, August 3) is distressing for graduates with less than a 2.1, but it ought also to be worrying the universities, for it is their system of classifying degrees that is being called into question. In rejecting candidates with less than a 2.1, employers are simply following a trend, established in the universities, to downgrade and, in some cases, eliminate 2.2 degrees. Ten years ago a "good honours degree" meant a 2.2 and above. Now it means 2.1.
Problems with the UK degree classification system have been brewing for some time. Despite vigorous claims to the contrary, the rise of the 2.1 has less to do with improved standards of teaching than with the injection into higher education of an ethos of competition, one of the key performance indicators being the proportion of "good degrees" a university awards.See the full content of this document
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Unstoppable Rise of the 2.1 Degree Indicates It Is Time for Reform of Student Assessment Methods
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