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Direct linkElton, Lewis – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
The classified honours degree has so much prestige and so venerable a tradition that only very serious and systemic changes could justify the question as to whether classification has a future. However, while this paper argues that such changes have indeed taken place in the past 30 years, the main arguments for change are pedagogical. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Classification, Honors Curriculum
Download full textEells, Walter Crosby; Haswell, Harold A. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Much significance is attached to college degrees in modern society. The fact that many individuals have become victims of fraudulent institutions that award degrees without the rigorous courses of study prescribed by legitimate institutions, suggests that there may be too much emphasis upon the form rather than the substance of higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Recognition (Achievement), Masters Degrees
