One of the benefits of a public, state funded university system that I see very rarely mentioned is that it's really good at culling nonsensical degrees because

One of the benefits of a public, state funded university system that I see very rarely mentioned is that it's really good at culling nonsensical degrees because the state has no incentive to keep paying for expensive, useless education. In Germany tertiary education rate is almost half as high as in Britain yet productivity is vastly higher. The academic system should focus on creating researchers, job training is better provided in a vocational setting. Britain and the US where you have governments write basically blank checks to students which then fund vast university bureaucracies just seem like a tax payer hazard.