And, skeptics point out, there are many reasons a student might take a second class in a discipline apart from the teaching skills of the previous instructor.
He was educated at Leighton Park, in Reading, Berkshire, a fee-paying but heterodox school founded by Quakers, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he took a second-class degree in classics, breakfasted with such visitors as David Lloyd George and Bertrand Russell, and was in 1933 elected president of the union.
After the war, he returned to Oxford, took a first-class honours degree, and was ordained in 1951.
At Oxford, he took a first-class honors degree in modern languages and worked covertly for MI5, probing for Soviet agents amid far-left groups.
Despite this, his determination won him a school prize that guaranteed a place at Magdalene, where he read English under FR Leavis and took a first-class degree.
He took a first-class degree in English at the then fairly new University of Leicester, and did postgraduate work at Queen Mary College, London, at Manchester and in the United States, before taking up his first full-time appointment in 1959, in the adult education department at Hull University.
He took a BA with honours in economics from Patna University in 1960, before retracing his grandfather's footsteps to Oxford, where he took a first-class degree in philosophy, politics and economics (1963) and an MPhil (1965) at St John's College.
Margaret Thatcher was one of Hodgkin's less successful chemistry students at Somerville: She took a second-class degree and later changed to law.
Read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first class degree.
That way, when a Base user wants to take a sixth class in a month, they can simply purchase it directly from the boutique of their choice without upgrading their entire membership.
"It's better than nothing, but they're really taking a second-class program.
