Undergraduate Degrees: Equal Standards

Part of Education – in the House of Commons at on 28 November 2022.

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Photo of John Penrose John Penrose Conservative, Weston-Super-Mare

For every other serious qualification, any particular grade is worth the same whether a person studied in Truro or in Tadcaster. Even though universities accept the principle of moderating their standards, no employer or student thinks a 2:1 in English or chemistry is worth the same from every university. Does the Minister agree that equally valuable degrees would give a second chance to anyone who does not get into their first-choice university, would wipe out some of the snobbery that still infects parts of our higher-education system, and would level up life chances across the country?