Does it matter what degree grade you get?
Universities are being warned they could be penalised in teaching quality rankings for handing out too many top degree grades.
But if the proportion of students getting first-class degrees has doubled since the late 1990s, does it make any difference to those who get them?
The University of Surrey has given first-class degrees to more than 40% of its students in recent years – and now about three-quarters of them either get a first or an upper second (2:1) across UK universities …