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University lecturers ‘pressured to make sure nobody failed exams’

A whistleblowing professor has lifted the lid on what he brands the “corrupt” exam system at universities in which lecturers are being pressured to pass underperforming students, The Independent reports.

Aviezer Tucker, a former academic at Queen’s University Belfast, said lecturers are under pressure to comply because their performance is assessed on the basis of grades students obtain.

In an article for The independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Professor Tucker, who now works in the US, describes the relentless pursuit of academic targets by UK university managers: “Like central planners in general, they have measured their success by the quantity of what they produce rather than by its quality.”

He said of Queen’s: “Managers pressured lecturers to make sure nobody failed and sought to inflate grades.” His claims are vehemently denied by Queen’s University, which said it was considering legal action against him.

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