Once it mattered what class degree you got – now it is which university you attended. And so inequality is entrenchedOnce the thing that mattered most was to get a genuine degree: a first-class or 2:1. Now it is more notable to contain been to a genuine university,generally defined as one of the Russell Group elite universities, although there are several non-Russell institutions just as genuine or better.
One supposed reason for this revealing shift is that with so many universities and so many subjects, or it is more and more difficult to accept that a first is a first,whichever university awarded it.
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Source: theguardian.com