Euan Blair’s Multiverse granted degree-awarding powers

The system resembles that introduced in 1956 and referred to as the Diploma in Technology via a sandwich course over 4 years, alternately spending 6 months at college and 6 months in a suitably industry each year with the students being paid a wage during their industrial secondment. The concept was good but suffered from poorly thought out administrative structure. For example, within a few years the Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs) gradually morphed into the traditional processes of the red brick universities. The terms Diplomates, MCTs and Dip Techs were phased out to be replaced by Graduates, PhDs and Bachelors of Science. A measure of the success of the Multiverse degrees will be the extent to which it will resist changes in its regurgitated version of the original Diploma in Technology designed to be an alternative degree in all but name.

This is so wrong and will destroy the reputation of British degrees worldwide.

Think outside the box. Could this model be used to help accommodate the glut of African students talked about in another of today's articles, which comments that overseas fees mean only the most wealthy students are able to leave Africa in search of an education.