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Are league tables undermining academic standards?
Or, put another way, is it likely that universities will seek to award more firsts to boost league table rankings? Geoffrey Alderman thinks so: The more firsts and upper seconds a university awards, the higher its ranking is likely to be. So each university looks closely at the grading criteria used by its league-table near … Continued
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Paul Greatrix
Registrar, The University of Nottingham
Paul Greatrix is Registrar at The University of Nottingham, author and creator of Registrarism and a Contributing Editor of Wonkhe.