With grade inflation, the academic environment has become extremely competitive.  Keeping up your grades is becoming more and more difficult, even when it is increasingly important that you do. 

Why is it important to graduate with honours, rather than just graduate?  The reasons are quite simple:

An honour student  is much more likely to find employment in these economically troubling times than is an ordinary, non-honour graduate.

An honour student is much more likely to find financially lucrative employment than is an ordinary, non-honour graduate.

Honour students earn almost double per year than do ordinary, non-honour students.