Yeah I think it's pretty obvious that grade inflation at university is a real thing. In the year I graduated 8% got firsts (I was one of them). Now it's about 30%. I can see that factors like improved teaching might explain some of the increase... but a quadrupling?
'Witter on about "grade inflation"'?
Yes, it's just another of those 'right-wing myths'.
[Chart source: New Statesman].