I want to know what everyone thinks? I've seen the general TSR trend is that there's a sizeable increase in difficulty between universities for the same course in terms of difficulty.
I personally doubt this, although I think there is a bit of difference between everywhere I don't think there's a set correlation. My reasons are:
1. Accreditation: Most degrees are accredited by some sort of royal society therefore similar content should be taught throughout (some degrees I guess such as Mathematics things may be different.)
2. The top 10 universities for how many first class degrees awarded are generally highly regarded universities such as St Andrews, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, KCL, Imperial.
----Anecdotal Point-----
3. I go to an ex-poly and pretty low ranked uni doing Biology, in my course although a few people are getting 2:1s and firsts, for individual pieces of work I've yet to see anyone in my class get like spectacular grades. Most firsts in the odd module for people in my class are usually in the low 70s. Whereas I have friends who are at a top 9 university and they know people who have gotten the odd exceptional grade like 80%+.
4. From casual conversation with friends at different universities doing the same or similar (Biosciences) degrees, there isn't anything that any of us do that seems to be vastly different or suggestive of this trend except for 1 being a friend at Oxford. My Oxford friend was top of my class at school and only got a 2:2
I think this might suggest that although there is variance between universities in terms of difficulty, people at higher ranked universities are generally more intelligent and therefore get higher marks however I think Oxbridge might be an exception?