{"id":635,"date":"2011-06-07T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=635"},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:35:18","slug":"grade-inflation-hits-the-university-green-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/07\/grade-inflation-hits-the-university-green-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade Inflation hits the University Green League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 university green league tables are published in today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/jun\/07\/university-green-league-nottingham-trent-environment\">Guardian<\/a>. \u00a0The usual suspects skulk near the top, but the University of Bath has managed to make it to 31st equal (6 others share this triumph) \u2013 up from a miserable 77th in <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/green-league-2010\/table#gl2010_class1st\">2010<\/a>, thereby halting a near vertiginous plummet over the past few years. \u00a0Huzzar for that.<\/p>\n<p>What is really notable about this ranking, however, is that it is enough to earn Bath a <em><strong>1st class<\/strong><\/em> honours degree from <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/\">People &amp; Planet<\/a>. \u00a0 In all, <strong>36<\/strong> institutions got a first in 2011,\u00a0whereas in 2010 it was only <strong>26<\/strong>. \u00a0 In 2009 it was <strong>20<\/strong>, \u00a0in 2008 <strong>18<\/strong>, \u00a0and in 2007, <strong>15<\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0These numbers really do speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, like many another educational institution, <em>People &amp; Planet<\/em> must be feeling the heavy pressure of expectation. \u00a0What a pity, though, that they seem to have responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 university green league tables are published in today's Guardian. \u00a0The usual suspects skulk near the top, but the University of Bath has managed to make it to 31st equal (6 others share this triumph) \u2013 up from a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}