At the University of East London, firsts increased from 10.9 per cent of degrees in 2010-11 to 35.7 per cent in 2023-24. At the University of Durham the share of top grades increased from 18.4 per ...

Grade inflation has long been a problem in higher education. I taught my first college classes in 1981. It was a concern then and remained so throughout my career. A recent article in The Chronicle of ...

Earlier this fall, Harvard University released a report from its Classroom Social Compact Committee. Among other things, it noted that rampant grade inflation allowed students to regularly skip ...

Grade inflation here at Penn is not the world’s most pressing problem. But, as its inclusion in the Trump administration’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education makes clear, ...

In 2020, the UC Board of Regents, against the advice of many, chose to eliminate standardized test scores such as the SAT ...

Grade inflation has got to stop — but so do the professors who try to reverse it single-handedly. Don't get me wrong: I'm not advocating that professors should give students grades they don't deserve.

Kai I. Russell ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. General Education: The apple of the Harvard administration’s eye, but the program the student body neglects. Gen Eds have ...

Mike Obstgarten’s “Academic fraud: Grade inflation is a scourge that must be eradicated” (Nov. 23 commentary) reminded me of a midterm grade I received my first semester in college. It was an easy ...

A few years ago, I penned an op-ed in this space about grade inflation. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten noticeably worse, as highlighted by the Review-Journal in its Nov. 12 editorial, ...

I've always found the subject of law school grades to be a tremendous bore. How antiquated and feudal is a system that still regards a candidate's performance in first-year torts or civil procedure as ...

For the last couple of decades, with increasing frequency, grade inflation has been identified as a problem in high schools, colleges, and most recently in my department, in graduate classes. I’m one ...