The Importance of Grades in Education

The primacy of grades within our system is something that really, really has to change. I think a lack of authentic assessment is another big issue in terms of do students actually see the value and the assessment itself for the purpose of learning. The integrity debate needs to be widened out and needs to be looked at in a much more holistic way because I would see that almost as a form of institutional cheating. You know, that we're not addressing these issues that we are mostly doing the examination because it's practical.