> If you (as Uni) try and do that, you'd immediately find your quota of those who have finished a degree to plummet. Indeed: as a teacher, I have had the expe

> If you (as Uni) try and do that, you'd immediately find your quota of those who have finished a degree to plummet. Indeed: as a teacher, I have had the experience that there's pressure to pass underachieving students in the elementary courses (we don't want to scare everyone off by flunking them out of their first courses!) and then there's pressure to pass underachieving students in the advanced courses (it's not fair to pass them to this point, and then suddenly hold them to higher expectations!—or even, directly, "if we don't pass them then they won't be able to graduate").