At the University of East London, firsts increased from 10.9 per cent of degrees in 2010-11 to 35.7 per cent in 2023-24. At the University of Durham the share of top grades increased from 18.4 per ...

Kai I. Russell ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. General Education: The apple of the Harvard administration’s eye, but the program the student body neglects. Gen Eds have ...

Grade inflation here at Penn is not the world’s most pressing problem. But, as its inclusion in the Trump administration’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education makes clear, ...

Earlier this fall, Harvard University released a report from its Classroom Social Compact Committee. Among other things, it noted that rampant grade inflation allowed students to regularly skip ...

(Bloomberg) -- More than half of the grades handed out at Harvard College are A’s, an increase from decades past even as school officials have sounded the alarm for years about rampant grade inflation ...

A few years ago, I penned an op-ed in this space about grade inflation. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten noticeably worse, as highlighted by the Review-Journal in its Nov. 12 editorial, ...

The Nov. 30 Plain Dealer contained two intriguing articles that, while in separate parts of the paper, were certainly connected. Michael J. Coren’s “The case for letting kids out of our sight” and ...

Harvard University’s Office of Undergraduate Education found an acceleration of grade inflation in the past decade, according to a report released Oct. 27 by the University. Students studying on the ...

Mike Obstgarten’s “Academic fraud: Grade inflation is a scourge that must be eradicated” (Nov. 23 commentary) reminded me of a midterm grade I received my first semester in college. It was an easy ...

For the last couple of decades, with increasing frequency, grade inflation has been identified as a problem in high schools, colleges, and most recently in my department, in graduate classes. I’m one ...

A few weeks ago, a student was quoted in the Harvard Crimson calling a report on grade inflation “soul-crushing.” In the article, students — mostly freshmen — are daunted by the implications of a more ...