i think this is a good proposal, zero-sum competitive dynamics means that people are always going to work really hard, but with your course limit idea at least

i think this is a good proposal, zero-sum competitive dynamics means that people are always going to work really hard, but with your course limit idea at least those competitive dynamics won't be directed towards taking lots of modules...one problem is that universities feel like they need to compete with each other in terms of how difficult the modules are and how much they teach their students (even though employers don't really care).. i think one solution ironically might be to have much less holidays.. right now in the uk the top universities (cambridge and oxford) have two 8 week terms of learning a year, which means all the extra-curricular, social life and academics are crammed in these very compressed periods of time... compare this to tsinghua university (in china) where terms are 17 weeks long and weirdly that means everything is more chilled out because things are more spread out.