The "customers" will not be too "happy" when they find that there dumbed down degrees are useless in the work place. Locals are finding that out already, as the serve coffee in cafes - if they are lucky. I'm wondering how long it will take foreign governments to realise how much money their citizens are wasting on useless degrees, and the bottom falls out of 'biggest "export" industry" that our political class is always yapping about.

Maybe, perhaps, could be?

But what else can you expect when essential government funding is withdrawn to the point, where institutional survival means becoming a commercial operation touting for paying customers!
Alan B.

Exactly the opposite Alan.

The whole university sector has expanded to about 5 times it's useful size, with almost 10 times the number of students the country requires. An arts degree is almost a requirement for a job as a clerk in the bureaucracy which has also expanded similarly to accommodate most of the graduates of useless degree courses.

They long ago had absorbed anyone with the knowledge & ability to actually teach a university course, so have to use incompetents to avoid downsizing to a more useful size.

While saying the right thing about global warming, & being popular with students are the main requirements to hold a job in universities they will continue their descent into uselessness so obvious in them today.

The catch-cry "additional funding" is getting tiresome. It's high time the overfunding thus far shows some value for money.
All I can see from ever increasing funding is a decline in educational standards to the point where the average blue collar worker is more articulate than the degree holders.
Value for money is not even understood in educational circles.

There is now talk of de-funding for those universities who don't protect free speech on campus. The lot of them should be privatised and made to work for their money.

the more money that has been poured into schools over the last 30 years the dumber the outcomes. You even had spoilt greens cadets brainwashed into protesting against the gw scam.