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'Report cards' could replace degree classifications

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

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New achievement reports given to graduates would recognise hobbies, voluntary work and involvement in societies, as well as academic success

British universities are likely to abolish their 200-year-old tradition of awarding graduates a first, 2.1 or 2.2 in six years' time, it was revealed today.

A report card, which lists a student's exam and coursework marks, as well as their participation in the university hockey team or orchestra, could replace degree classifications by 2015, the chair of a powerful committee of academics, students and employers, has said.

Professor Bob Burgess, the vice-chancellor of Leicester University, who is the head of a cross-university group overseeing the introduction of report cards, said degree classifications were "no longer appropriate".

He said: "In the last 200 years, we have moved from an elite to a mass higher education system. We need a classification system that isn't just for a tiny number of people, but for the 1.5m students who graduate each year."

From the summer of 2012, all universities are expected to give students wh

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