莱斯特大学将推出衡量学生表信能力的新计划

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莱斯特大学推出了一个新的衡量学生表现能力的新计划，除了  first, second or third-class degree外，学校还会提供一些学生的其他信息给将来的雇主，比如你的平时考试好，还是grouop work好，有什么特殊机能，大学都参加了哪些活动等等


[来源:Leicester Mercury 6月17日]

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Students hail new way of measuring abilities
Friday, June 17, 2011
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Students have welcomed plans being trialled by Leicester University for a new way of measuring their performance.

As well as picking up their degree this summer, some students will get a Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR).

It will provide more detailed reviews of students' abilities, such as extra curricular activities, individual grades they achieve, and whether they do better at timed exams, group work or in their dissertation.

Professor Robert Burgess, vice-chancellor of the university, led a steering group which piloted the system in Leicester and 26 other universities.

It is due to be rolled out to all universities from next year.

The new report will include the traditional classification award of a first, second or third-class degree, but is intended to give employers additional information to help them pick the right candidate.

Roshni Mistry, 18, is about to take her A-levels at Burleigh Community College, in Loughborough, and will probably leave university with the new report.

She said: "I think it's a good idea. If you're going for a job, it's good for employers to see what other skills you might have alongside your degree, otherwise you might get pushed to one side if it's not a first or upper second."

Politics student Dominic Isles, who is in the second year of his degree at Leicester University, agreed.

He said: "It's easy to go to university and get your degree without doing anything else so if this makes students think about participating in other activities and societies, it's good.

"Some students might not get a top degree, but it doesn't mean they don't have strengths in other areas which employers are looking for. This new system could help show up those strengths."

A pilot scheme over the past three years at Leicester University means a small group of students will leave with a HEAR when they graduate this summer.

It is available in electronic and paper format and is expected to be requested by employers once it is widely adopted.

Professor Burgess said: "It will be a document fully verified by the university and of great relevance to employers.

"It's accepted there are inadequacies in the current system because the classification system is a blunt instrument of measurement, whereas the HEAR will have a richer amount of information.

"We've already talked to employers about it and the National Union of Students has come out fully in favour."