A total of 20 students scored an overall ‘B+’ grade in their FY completed in February 2010; no student got an ‘A’ overall. Table 1 provides a breakdown by College and gender.

1. the popularity of the different Colleges can be ranked as Management > Arts & Humanities ≈ Social Sciences > Science &

Technology > Law ≈ Education;

2. in terms of the proportion of female students, the popularity of the different Colleges can be ranked as Law (but only a very

small cohort-size) > Arts & Humanities > Management ≈ Social Sciences ≈ Education > Science & Technology;

3. relatively fewer students were on the Dean’s List for the College of Management and, especially, the Colleges of Science &

Technology and Education, compared with about a third of those for other Colleges;

4. female students outperformed male ones in Law (but only a very small cohort-size) and in Arts & Humanities, were comparable

in Management, but were not represented for Science & Technology (where compounded by poorer overall performance).

The data were further analysed by the session when students studied (Table 2). Overall, the results of χ2 analyses indicate that there were no significant differences between different session in either the proportion of females, the proportion of students on the Dean’s List or the proportion of those on the List who were female; however the interpretation of these latter two findings, in particular, is confounded by the small sample sizes, including several of 5 or less. Nevertheless, the results suggest that there is some sort of ‘stabilisation’ occurring, where there are less differences in performance between sessions. If so, then this is good, since it avoids the prospect of a ‘two-track’ output with the latter’s attendant problems.