The mess should and could be optimized. But as said, what the uni. degree is for employers, students and society is an arbitrary yardstick for the general quali

The mess should and could be optimized. But as said, what the uni. degree is for employers, students and society is an arbitrary yardstick for the general quality of a person within a given field, what other option do we have then throwing public money at it? Private money just distorts these yardsticks towards capita, not competence.