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From The Times (of London):
No more three-hour finals for some Cambridge students
Nicola Woolcock, Education Editor | Holly Papworth | Oliver Myers
Thursday May 05 2022, 12.01am BST, The TimesProfessor Stephen Toope said the coronavirus pandemic had forced Cambridge to rethink the way it assessed its students
The three-hour finals that struck fear into the hearts of generations of Cambridge students are being dropped in some subjects, the university’s vice-chancellor says.
The changes are expected to cut the gap in the number of first-class degrees achieved by women, ethnic-minority students and the disabled compared with others, and to reduce anxiety.
