>> Or is it because we have allowed the self interest and profiteering of academia to
>> dictate and manipulate purely for their own growth and egos?
That conclusion is a bit of a reach IMHO. My recollection is that in nineties, spanning both Major and Blair, there was a panic that UK did not have enough graduates. Comparisons were drawn with other countries like Korea or Singapore who pushed a far higher proportion of their 18yo's into University. We were being left behind by fast growing modernising economies and losing competition.
I'm sure the Universities, including all the former Polytechnics, seized the opportunity but the driver was government policy rather than something they did of their own motion.
The probable effect though has been to devalue a first degree and drive more people to take a Masters so as to stand out.
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