Grade Inflation in Britain
Annual grade inflation has been a habitual element of the UK Public examination system for several decades, in April 2012 Glenys Stacey, the chief executive of Ofqual, the UK public examinations regulator, acknowledged its presence and announced a series of measures to restrict further grade devaluation.
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