This state of affairs in universities across the Western world (and in Thailand, too, for that matter) needs to undergo a radical cure. I don't know what they can do in the UK, because it is actually far more entrenched there than, say, in the US. But in the US there are three possible avenues of radical reform/change (and perhaps this could be adopted in the UK somehow): 1) An outside panel of experts not affiliated with universities or political parties should investigate the credentials of every single faculty member drawing a salary, and only a 3/4 vote of approval that simply attests to no presence of fraud or misrepresentation should allow them to continue their employment. 2) The boards of regents need to review and eliminate programs and study areas that do nothing more than award degrees to people to study themselves essentially (this is precisely the job Arday was hired to do); this means ethnic, race, and gender studies and area studies need to go. 3) Accrediting agencies (which themselves are also riddled with much of the same rot as the universities they oversee), should close down and merge into more general course designs those majors and study areas that cannot produce graduates who take their degree within a specified amount of time--six years is enough for a full time undergraduate to finish up.
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