Thinktank wants England-wide exams to tackle grade inflation

Reform wants external professional bodies to set university standards and to determine the proportion of each degree classification that an institution can award

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June 21, 2018

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June 21, 2018

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Inflated ideas: the Reform thinktank report intends to address what it says are ‘two decades of uninterrupted grade inflation’

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