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is it true that your secondary school gets to know your degree grade?

I am wondering if the rumour is true that secondary schools get to know your degree classification, when you graduate etc?

Is this true?

(didnt like my school much and am quite happy to have nothing to do with them!)

Reply 1

Flicker

bouboukimou

only if you or someone else tells them...how else would they? when you leave, you leave, that's it! they don't have follow up files on you for the rest of your life!

Reply 2

bouboukimou

aha this is an idle threat then from someone who didn't get an oxbridge offer and i did!

Reply 3

username5154

I don't think secondary schools get to know your degree classification. They only which uni you go to. That's the only thing my school knows.

Reply 4

Butterfly

Don't be silly, schools have better things to do than to worry about degrees of pupils who left 3+ years ago.

Reply 5

d750

They definitely do know your results. I went back to my school shortly after graduation to give a subject talk and there was a complete list of the year's graduants outside the senior common room.

Reply 6

AT82

Where would they get it from? I left my school over 6 years ago, most the teachers won't even know who I am, they would care less. They are not going to phone up all the universities in the country and the universities are not going to bother telling the schools.

Reply 7

Sarky

When i went back to my school to visit i was told they would know my degree classification and what i had studied.

Reply 8

Flicker

d750

They definitely do know your results. I went back to my school shortly after graduation to give a subject talk and there was a complete list of the year's graduants outside the senior common room.

it will depend on the school but they have to rely on people telling them - the students themselves or people who know them. neither the universities nor the schools have time to ring each other to catch up! and i'm not sure unis would be allowed to pass that on to schools.

some schools will just be more thorough with follow ups - i know mine sends out things periodically to ask you to let them know what you're doing, so they have people to access if they want speakers for careers/FE talks, but it is only a small school so not as difficult.

if you were going back to speak as well, i imagine they would make an effort to look it up!

Reply 9

username5154

Why would your past school/college want to know your degree classification? :redface:

If it is the reason about careers and stuff like allisandro mentioned above, it's not that related.

Reply 10

kellywood_5

trev

Why would your past school/college want to know your degree classification? :redface:

If it is the reason about careers and stuff like allisandro mentioned above, it's not that related.

I guess because it makes the school look good if loads of people get 1sts/2.1s.

Reply 11

username5154

kellywood_5

I guess because it makes the school look good if loads of people get 1sts/2.1s.

Yeah, that's true. I know that my school won't ask us about our degree classifications, however they know where we went. In addition, they even know our firm and insurance choice followed by the six choices we made, as we needed to write them down. Furthermore, it's for their reference/record too.

Reply 12

undiscovered

I'm not sure how your school could get your degree result without you telling them. In my school newsletters there are a couple of mentions of people each year who've graduated with at 1st/2:1 for X University (e.g. a 1st from Aber in Geog :smile:

) My geog teacher said she expects to read in a newsletter that i get a first from Notts in a few years time :biggrin:

(I just laughed!)

Reply 13

pete77

No way !

Unless you went to a posh £'s costly skool that cares about its ex-students !

No one gets to know your degree classification or anything about u !
Data protection !

Reply 14