Useless degrees

what do you mean?

Are you saying that the numbers of people in education has no effect on the quality of the education?

Alex, you're critiquing the education system, but putting emphasis on the numbers of people attending. The two things are not inherently related (in the way you're insinuating).

Are you sure you should be in higher education?

(joke!)

Yes, that's what I'm saying. They two do not need to be seen as inherently connected in the way you seem to be arguing (more students = shittier education - "I am jaded by the fact that I have discovered that all of these drives to get more and more people into university do not produce more and more people who have received a worthwhile educational experience. The education itself is reduced and diluted as the numbers increase").

In reality, wouldn't a better quality (higher) education result in fewer students? Is this not what happens already (from tertiary education, to undergrad, to graduate, to post grad?). I'm happy to be the first one to say the level of expectation when it comes to undergraduate education (and graduate in the UK) is not where it should be. However, fewer opportunities for students is not an answer.