In the Cup of Excellence grading system – the yardstick for top-end gourmet coffees – blended batches of Floresta achieve scores of 89 or 90.
The Premier League and Football League have also worked with the FA to develop the Elite Player Performance Plan, which will see clubs' academies and centres of excellence graded to provide a more joined-up development programme.
The organisation is run as a not-for-profit social enterprise; a "centre of excellence for sampling, grading, production and for learning and development of skills within the fashion and textiles industry".
The admissions committee looks for a high level of excellence in test scores, grades, communication, leadership, teamwork, innovation and professional experience.
This summer, the Danish National Research Foundation sponsored a regular review of Needham's research group by an expert external panel, which gave the team its highest grade, denoting "Excellence from an international perspective".
Rhythmic gymnastics is not a college sport, but she would like to think good grades and excellence in her discipline will appeal to an admissions officer.
At Excellence, in a third-grade room, the teacher Roberto de Leon roused his students into calling out the two-dimensional sides of three-dimensional shapes while throwing around a big purple eyeball.
First, teachers and school systems should be trained to recognize excellence and to assign grades accordingly.
► "Germany's excellence program gets good grades," Gretchen Vogel reported this morning from Berlin.
Think back to your school timetable, the homework, the tests, the relentless pursuit of better grades and excellence being the key to achieving what you desired in life.
At a school not known for its academic excellence, her six good GCSE grades stood out and her form tutor thought she had considerable academic potential.
