'Degree results obtained by The Sunday Telegraph show six out of 10 students were handed either a first or an upper second in 2010, compared with just one in three graduates in 1970. '
The Telegraph seemed shocked. Any intelligent person must surely have realised that with league tables come institutions who want to artificially boosttheir league positions and increasing their degree results is an obvious way. Under the last Labour government 'A' levels were made easier and easier, I hardly know of any child of a friend who has got less than a 'B' in any 'A' level for some years now, and degrees have followed the same path. This country is producing young adults with an exaggerated sense of their intelligence & worth and thus their possible career. It's not good for them and its not good for the Country but it helped Labour get re-elected twice, so I presume Blair, Brown, Blunkett and co thought it worthwhile.
And this present lot will continue down the road until every degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and the brightest will be going off to Austria, France or Germany for their higher education.
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