Bob Burgess: I hope student records make degree classes obsolete - Higher, Education - The Independent

Bob Burgess: I hope student records make degree classes obsolete - Higher, Education - The Independent: "In the next academic year, many universities will pilot new records of student achievement that could replace our 200-year-old system of degree classification."

Eighteen higher education institutions have already been running pilots of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) in seven subjects over the past year.