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Commercial goals and no regulation that desires everyone to pass the same accreditation, and only that same accreditation.

In theory, doing it 'better' than the competition is good, in practise this just means there will always only be a handful that are actually better and they will capitalise on that as much as possible. But purely regulating everything into the ground also doesn't help.

Not sure if this is even fixable, because it is a complete ecosystem that is highly lucrative (money, status, offloading HR to the schools) for everyone except the students and teachers (professors). You can also wonder if the goal of just providing good education is something people are even interested in, it's so much more geared towards a 'future fabrication factory' where the learning stuff part is secondary to the "follow this track go get a shot at job XYZ" part that everything is minmaxing for.



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