All students will graduate from some universities with a first-class degree in just over a decade because of grade inflation, according to research by The Times.
If the inflation continues at its present rate, every student in the UK would achieve a first in 38 years’ time, the projections indicate.
By 2030 all students at the University of West London and University of Wales Trinity St David will get firsts. At St Mary’s, Twickenham all students will get firsts 14 years from now and in 15 years at Anglia Ruskin and Greenwich.
The 2:2, once seen as almost respectable, will become extinct, probably by about 2033. At Trinity St David there will be no 2:2s in 2022 and none at St Mary’s by 2023. Universities…
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