'Two tribes' to the wall? Elite set may adopt GPA

Seven universities are set to accelerate plans to scrap the UK's honours degree-classification system by replacing it with the US grade-point average model. The group, which includes six Russell Group institutions but not the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, has held a series of informal discussions on introducing GPA.

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