In line with a recent rubberstamp by the Academic Senate, the Office of Academic Standrads has announced that the Free University will be moving to semi-desemesterization of the grading structure. Under this innovative scheme, students' yearly grades will be determined by the larger of their first and second semester grades.
The change has been prompted by the confusion created during the recent semesterization of year-long courses. The Free University is anxious to ensure that no student is penalised for what most outside observers have called an "utter fiasco". In a bid to see off lawsuits, the Free University has awarded distinctions to the whole class of 2009 in all disciplines, and is now implementing changes to ensure that there is no repeat of what has been a disastrous year.
"We are desperately trying to put this behind us" said the President of the Academic Senate, Prof. Henry Martini. "Our quality assurance mechanisms are now the best in the world," he added hastily.
Dean of the Office of Academic Standrads, Prof. Slash N. Byrne is adamant that the changes will go far enough to satisfy even the most apathetic student. "Other than dropping our trousers in the street and bending over, I'm not sure what else we can possibly do," he said.
Meanwhile, the Free University's Minister for Financial Undersight has welcomed the changes. "This is exactly the kind of flexibility envisaged under the Croak Park Agreement", said Sargent Major Dennis Bloodnok.
Another positive spin-off has been the patent on the system, established by the Minister for Barmy Schemes, Prof. Smarm E. Gett. "A number of other Universities have expressed an interest in our model, and we will be licensing out the format through a campus start-up company, Hire Education Ltd."
A Students spokesman was not available for comment as of Thursday afternoon, since Wednesday night is Pukers Niteklub student night.
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