going up

In Los Angeles and beyond, research has shown that grades are generally going up even though test scores and other measures of actual learning are not.

My ride companion, The Times’ senior editor for video Mark Potts, remarked that it felt like going up to heaven.

"With the price of everything else going up, I expected there would be some assistance for essential things like baby milk," he says.

It would probably limit our audience; I can’t imagine a lot of guys going up to order, saying, “Can you make that Two D—?”

Despite fees going up, Sam says he thinks his business degree at Bath Spa University has been "incredible" value for money so far, when he considers all the extras available to students.