<i>&quot;guarantee&quot; that students &quot;know&quot; what they are &quot;taught&quot;</i><p>That used to be the case, but now corporations require you to pass their own exam before they hire you.  Let that sink in a moment.  No longer are the universities taken at their word about their product.<p>For some of you it has never been any different, but this change came about more or less when I was teaching at university&#x2F;college.  Some of us saw this as a quite profound change.<p>In my view, that was the first signal of the beginning of the inevitable disruption of modern higher ed.