The first empirical evidence of how A-level grading in the pandemic affected university applications corroborates concerns about disproportionate benefits for private schools. Disadvantaged students ...
London Luton incident flagged by flight-data monitoring system after jet passed low over opposite threshold. Pilots of an EasyJet Airbus A320 took off from a London Luton runway intersection despite ...
Many college graduates are leaving school this season with near-perfect GPAs. Sure, many are high-achieving, smart students, but as the number of students receiving top grades continues to rise, it is ...
Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it. The ...
The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...
Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...
Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt in decades to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic ...
America’s oldest and most prestigious university may soon be deliberately taking many of its students down a notch. This week, Harvard faculty members are voting on a contentious proposal to rein in ...
Harvard University faculty are set to begin voting Tuesday on the boldest attempt in decades to rein in grade inflation, an issue that’s drawn attention from the White House in its push to remake ...
Each year, the undergraduate college at Harvard awards the Sophia Freund Prize to the graduating senior with the highest GPA. For decades, the prize went to one student, sometimes two if there was a ...
Following the 2026 NFL draft, René Bugner compiled a round-up of post-draft grades for all 32 clubs, citing 24 sources. He then ranked the 32 teams by their cumulative "GPA" grade. The Denver Broncos ...
Following the 2026 NFL draft, René Bugner compiled a round-up of post-draft grades for all 32 clubs, citing 24 sources. He then ranked the 32 teams by their cumulative "GPA" grade. The A- grade came ...