Não é só por cá que os custos estão acima de qualquer preocupação de qualidade e rigor:

Fast-track degrees proposed to cut higher education costs

Traditional three-year courses could be replaced by more flexible degrees,

The age of the traditional three-year degree could come to an end after universities were today ordered to devise two-year fast-track courses to cut the cost of higher education to students and the public purse.

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary who is also responsible for universities, wrote to the funding council for universities asking them to develop proposals for more flexible degrees. “Over the next spending review period, we will want some shift away from full-time three year places and towards a wider variety of provision,” he said.

Mas em Inglaterra as coisas são mais claras: o responsável pelas Universidades é também o secretário para as Finanças…