Why maintaining a fiction that it is about anything else? I would go even further and say "close the brick and mortar unis altogether and replace them with on line services." You need a degree? Log in, answer a few questions, type your credit card number and voila, you have the credential that you need. And the good side of it is that smart people who now waste their time on maintaining their academic jobs and applying for research grants may start thinking critically about this whole system and, who knows, become a social force to change it instead of reproducing it?
-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."