A record amount of students have graduated with first class degrees this year, the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced yesterday. Figures show that one in eight students graduated with a top degree, which is a one per cent increase on 2006 figures. However, the Times Higher Education magazine reported that many universities had been forced to implement remedial classes for new students, which they blamed on the "dumbing down" of secondary school education. Commenting on the amount of time such teaching is taking up, Professor Lin Norton, from Liverpool Hope University, told Times Higher Education: "There is a great deal of frustration among academics that they are being asked to pick up the pieces." In related news, Folkestone is set to open a university campus in a bid to keep its brightest people in the area. The new operation will be a satellite campus operated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christchurch, the BBC reports. Pareto - Graduate Banking Sales Jobs with the UK's financial organisations companies earning up to £35k OTE
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