If you haven’t HEARd about it yet, as I hadn’t, HEAR stands for Higher Education Achievement Record.
Have a look at Mary Beard’s reaction, speaking from long experience. Her blog post is here.
I was interested in the first comment logged on The Guardian website that she links to. It begins:
A move away from the classification system is indeed to be welcomed. It is tired and anachronistic.
Many years ago, C.S. Lewis warned us to beware the person whose only criticism of something is that it is not modern. Perhaps the Olympic Committee should look again at the tired and anachronistic system of awarding a gold medal to the sprinter who crosses the line first, and instead take into account all the times the athlete recorded while in training.
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