“The recent fuss about grade inflation has me wandering a little down memory lane. I have absolutely no doubt that the standard of ‘teaching’ in higher education is far ‘better’ now than it was back in my time. (I’ll explain what I mean by ‘better’ in my next post.) Those of us who were lucky enough to go to university back in the 1980s had experiences of lecturers who were just so dire that being in class was almost like living through a real-life Monty Python sketch …” (more)
[An Irish Blog about Education, 1 January]