DEGREES OF CONCERN.

UNIVERSITY vice-chancellors are unwilling to address problems with degree standards, MPs have warned.

A Commons select committee said it was "unacceptable" that the higher education sector receive pounds 15billion of public funding Public funding is money given from tax revenue or other governmental sources to an individual, organization, or entity. See also

Public funding of sports venues
Research funding
Funding body

, but are unable to answer "straightforward" questions about the worth of degrees at different universities. The cross-party group of MPs found that the proportion of graduates awarded a first class degree rose from 7.7 per cent in 1996/97 to 13.3 per cent in 2007/08.

And they concluded that it appears "different levels of effort" are needed in different universities in order to obtain similar degrees.

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