The Higher Education Academy. Grade point average: Report of the GPA pilot project 2013-14. The Higher Education Academy, May 2015. Pages: 44

The present report is the product of a pilot involving 21 higher education providers designed to test the use of various GPA scales and to explore implementation issues. An additional 32 higher education providers attended facilitated meetings about the pilot.

Authored by the national GPA Advisory Group, the report recommends the ‘dual running’ of a GPA system alongside the Honours Degree Classification for a period of up to five years.