My free market solution to the excessive cost of university fees was that universities should be obliged to examine any candidate, at cost price, and award them a degree accordingly, so that anyone who wanted to teach students to a college’s curriculum could enter those students for examination, on an equal footing to those who had attended the three years, paying only the costs of examining and marking the students’ scripts. I tried it out on a few people, but there weren’t many takers, not even among Tories. I guess that the ‘free market’ is not ready to break the colleges monopoly over the credentialling system.