Are my lecturers stingy with their marks?

According to an article in yesterday's Manchester Evening News, tutors in MMU's Department of Computing & Mathematics have been asked to bear in mind that the university doesn't award as many top class degrees as other post-1992 institutions, when marking work.

That's my department!! They're my lecturers!!

So the obvious questions are;

• Have my lecturers not given me the credit I deserve for my work?
• Have other institutions been awarding degrees much more lightly than MMU?
• Should my degree be worth more than those from other new universities?

I'm not about to speculate about the reasons behind this, especially as it looks as if the comment was made in an email from "a member of staff below the level of head of department", and you can prove anything with statistics.

I believe that "top grade" marks relate to the awarding of first and upper second class degrees. It is unfortunate that you probably require at least a 2.1 for your degree to be considered worthwhile, particularly if you studied at a post-1992 university!

I'm going to reserve further comment until I've spoken to the union's officers, but please comment yourselves by clicking on the comments link below. Now you don't even have to register to leave comments!

JR