Study: Greater transparency needed to prevent grade inflation


GRADE inflation is a global issue, even affecting high-performing institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom.

In the UK, many of its graduates attained first-class degrees during the Covid-19 pandemic – a laudable achievement except for the fact that more than half of the high achievements in 2021 could not be justified, according to Office for Students (OfS), the UK’s independent regulator of higher education, in May last year.

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