By Dr. angus munro (Vice President for Academic Affairs)
Every term, we recognise the best of our undergraduate students, provided that they have done the minimum number of courses during that term (three for Term III, when there are no Foundation Year students): those who have scored an ‘A’ overall are nominated to the Vice-President’s List, whilst those who have scored a ‘B+’ overall are put on the Dean’s List.
There were 14 students with straight ‘A’s in Term III of Academic Year 2009-10, whilst another 245 students scored an overall ‘B+’ grade. Two of the students on the Dean’s List were transfer students. The following table provides a breakdown by College.
It is notable that, whilst all awardees satisfied the criterion of doing at least three courses in Term III, two nominees (14%; both female) for the Vice-President’s List and another 24 (10%; 54% female) for the Dean’s List did one more course in another session.
The data show that:
1. Comparable numbers of students were nominated for the Vice-President’s List from the Colleges of Arts & Humanities and Management.
2. Although only half this number were nominated from the College of Social Sciences, this represented more than 2% of that College’s total enrollment – the highest for any College (about 1% of all undergraduate students qualified for the Vice- President’s List).
3. For the Dean’s List, a quarter or more of all students in the Colleges of Law, Management and Social Sciences qualified, with the highest proportion in the last of these Colleges; despite the relatively large numbers of nominees, the College of Arts & Humanities ranked fifth, with about an eighth of its students qualifying.
4. The percentage of female students on the Vice-President’s List was higher than for the overall undergraduate population; this difference was much more pronounced when the data for the College of Arts & Humanities were considered.
5. On the other hand, the proportion of female students on the Dean’s List was comparable with that for the undergraduate population as a whole, but there are clear differences between Colleges, with the greatest proportion of female students in Social Sciences and the smallest proportion in Science & Technology, amongst those Colleges represented (Education has only a small number of students at present).
The following are the undergraduate students who qualified for the Vice-President’s List.
The following are the undergraduate students who qualified for the Dean’s List.
This will be recorded in their academic transcripts. The students are to be congratulated on their hard work; it is hoped that this will encourage them to continue to do so, and other students to try harder in order to also earn this distinction in later terms.
