Monday, 9 January 2012

Inflation

Not money inflation, but grade inflation!

One of my university teaching clients just came down with a bad dose of it. Normally, grade inflation is a slow, insidious problem, stealthily devaluing your hard-earned qualification.   But at this client - a young ambitious operation - the grade inflation was sudden and violent. One year, everything was ticking along nicely. The next, students were complaining bitterly when they didn't get 90% for very ordinary assignments. It turned into quite a mess. The external examiner threatened to resign. It was painful to unwind and cure.

The lesson? Grade inflation is just as damaging as financial inflation.

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