Forces against curriculum flexibility

As of today our curriculum is flexible to a certain extent. We do have the freedom to choose between different electives and breadths. However, in our minds we really do not exercise a fair choice.

This is mainly because of the difference in the potential to get good grades in the different subjects. Student flock to those subjects in which easier grades are available. Now, you may say that you won't do that or don't do that... but when the time comes, it's all a big stampede, and you end up gonig with the others.

Making the program more flexible will only end up in a larger list of untaken programes.

The real flaw is that grades are largely instructor dependant. Some instructors give As and Bs, while the others give Cs and Ds. What we require is a completely objective scheme of grading, which has nothign to do with the instructor. We need completely relative grading in all our breaths and electives.

That way instructors will have to give a particular grade say A to the same proportion of class, whatever the course may be.