| Abstract: | In an earlier paper by the present author (1970) a comparison was made of graduation rates and pass rates under a pass-on-the-year system with those under a credit points system. In the present paper attention is focused on the effect, under these two systems, of regulations which exclude students who have not achieved the required minimum rate of progress. The paper traces the progress made by homogeneous groups of students when there is no exclusion formula, points out why such formulae are needed under both systems, and measures the efficiency of a university system in terms of the proportion of a given quality intake which it graduates and of the cost measured by the number of students required to be maintained on campus to produce one graduate. Precise definitions of the terms used are not repeated here because they are in common usage; they are, however, given in the earlier |
