Surely there is a way to regulate “grade grubbing” to the benefit of all? (“Please professor, I want some more”, News, 28 February.) An enhanced assessment process could be offered where, for additional tuition fees, submitted work could be tweaked on the “advice” of lecturers to provide better grades. Just think of it as a new form of payment by results.
Keith Flett
London
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