: At least I'm under no illusions as to the value or otherwise of my degree
Market forces cause grade inflation at UK universities. Postgrad courses are near-impossible to fail.
Some of us have been saying so for months.
I shall add one point, and it's not the direction I expected to challenge the Indytab on. The reports are that international students are being let off more easily with plagiarism. That's possibly believable - and my experience of working with an international student in a group project is that said student was a plagiarist (I edited out every single plagiarised statement and English-language mangling he made. This is why I did the final report...) - and it also fits the marketised hypothesis. However, the unspoken is that if it is made clear that UK degrees are practically commodities, surely Chinese families will strongly discourage their adolescent children from studying in the UK? That alone could take down plenty of departments and possibly an entire institution...
Market forces cause grade inflation at UK universities. Postgrad courses are near-impossible to fail.
Some of us have been saying so for months.
I shall add one point, and it's not the direction I expected to challenge the Indytab on. The reports are that international students are being let off more easily with plagiarism. That's possibly believable - and my experience of working with an international student in a group project is that said student was a plagiarist (I edited out every single plagiarised statement and English-language mangling he made. This is why I did the final report...) - and it also fits the marketised hypothesis. However, the unspoken is that if it is made clear that UK degrees are practically commodities, surely Chinese families will strongly discourage their adolescent children from studying in the UK? That alone could take down plenty of departments and possibly an entire institution...