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Download full textWong, Billy – AERA Open, 2018
In the United Kingdom, a "good" undergraduate degree is understood to be a "first class" or an "upper second class," which is achieved by three-quarters of students. The need to distinguish oneself from others is ever more important in an increasingly crowded graduate market, although a first-class degree is most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
