Changes to the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) grading system, including a raising of the pass mark, will be implemented next year, but a senior official is assuring that the changes won’t affect the institution’s standards or disadvantage students.
Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Alan Cobley insisted yesterday the revisions to the grade point average (GPA) scheme will not make it more difficult for students to pass courses or to get honours.
“We are not changing the standard of the UWI degree. We are quite confident that we have a high quality degree programme and we are not changing that,” he told the WEEKEND NATION, explaining that the university was simply aligning itself with the international standard.
He was speaking after the Board for Undergraduate Studies of the university, which he chairs, announced in a statement issued in all its campus territories that from semester one of the 2014/2015 academic year, “the overall manner in which assessments are conducted and grades represented for undergraduate student transcripts will be revised”. (DP)
