Colleges in England are giving an excessive number of understudies top qualification reviews, the Office for Students (OfS) has cautioned.
The guard dog's investigation demonstrates the quantity of alumni being granted first and upper-inferior degrees ascended from 67% in 2010-11 to 78% in 2016-17.
The OfS says the ascent was "unexplained" and couldn't be completely put down to different elements, for example, foundation, earlier achievement and enhanced instructing.
Colleges UK said colleges were at that point handling grade expansion.
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What does the investigation appear?
The OfS report depends on 1,638,490 understudies who moved on from 148 colleges in England between 2010-11 and 2016-17.
The investigation found that:
the level of alumni granted first and upper-below average degrees ascended from 67% in 2010-11 to 78% in 2016-17
the level of top notch degrees ascended from 16% to 27% in a similar time allotment
It says that in 2016-17, a sum of 77 colleges in England demonstrated a measurably critical unexplained increment in top of the line degree grants - this was in connection to both different colleges and to their very own dimension of firsts given in 2010-11.
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The OfS report finds that 14 organizations had an unexplained transcend 20% in firsts and upper-seconds.
Of these, the University of Bradford had the most astounding ascent, at 24.6%, trailed by Coventry University, at 24.4%.
The OfS likewise says 13 colleges had an unexplained ascent in firsts of over 20%, with the University of Surrey seeing the most elevated ascent, at 27.3%.
What does the OfS say?
Nicola Dandridge, CEO of the OfS, said the investigation would make awkward perusing for a few colleges.
Ms Dandridge said it was imperative for understudies, graduates and businesses that degrees held their esteem and that "spiraling evaluation expansion" undermined open certainty.
"This report indicates distinctly that there has been critical and unexplained review expansion since 2010-11," she said.
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"We completely perceive how hard understudies function for their degrees, and acknowledge that enhanced educating and understudy support, and increments in the capabilities understudies gain before college, could clarify a portion of the expansion in evaluations.
"Be that as it may, notwithstanding representing earlier accomplishment and understudy socioeconomics, despite everything we find critical unexplained review expansion."
How have colleges reacted?
Alistair Jarvis, CEO of Universities UK, stated: "Colleges are as of now finding a way to handle review swelling.
"The report we as of late distributed blueprints various measures to ensure the estimation of capabilities after some time that are at present being counseled on by the UK Standing Committee for Quality Assessment.
"It is basic that the general population has full trust in the estimation of a degree."
Prof Jane Powell, bad habit executive at Surrey University, stated: "Our number of top notch degrees mirrors a blend of components, incorporating significant interests in top notch educating, assets, and scholarly help.
"This has seen us draw in understudies with progressively solid scholastic foundations and abnormal amounts of inspiration to accomplish great results."
In an announcement, Coventry University stated: "We've put intensely in further upgrading instructing and learning and guaranteeing quick and great quality input, which is reflected in remarkable advancement for the college between 2010-11 and 2016-17. This investigation does not consider this advancement.
"We'd propose our extents of firsts and [upper seconds] are in accordance with our situation in the UK rankings, perceiving the incredible learning progress that our understudies make."
What's the administration's view?
Training Secretary Damian Hinds said understudies merited a reviewing framework that appropriately perceived their diligent work.
"I genuinely trust the present figures go about as a reminder to the segment - particularly those colleges which are currently uncovered as having noteworthy unexplained increments.
"Establishments ought to be responsible for keeping up the estimation of the degrees they grant.
"I am encouraging colleges to handle this difficult issue and have requested that the OfS bargain immovably with any organization observed to be preposterously expanding evaluations."
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