'Please respond ASAP, as I have never received a B. during my career here at AU and it will surely lower my GPA'" (Shepard 2005:1)
' But is grade inflation really a bad thing? The question perhaps is not so much if grade inflation is bad but rather the extent to which grades are viewed as the ultimate purpose of learning. Is getting good grades the point of attaining higher education or is actually learning the material? "Are grades signals to students about their mastery of content and the skills of a discipline? Are they ways for professors to establish credibility or purchase popularity? Or are grades meant to send messages to future employers, rather than to the students themselves?" (Tworek 2014) One of the causes of grade inflation is the pressure teachers are frequently subjected to by students (and parents and administrators) to give students good grades
Moreover, this forced land seizures removed much confidence that international markets had in Mugabe's ability to lead. The country's biggest foreign exchange earner, tobacco, dropped from $600 million to $125 million in just a few years, gutting the country's foreign exchange intake (Mohan, 2016)