About time. Certain courses work well for long-form learning, research, applied skills or creativity. But for a significant part it’s about clocking up hours to justify ridiculous university profit margins from what I’ve seen as someone attempting to get on courses and someone partially involved in selling them.

Why waste hours, weeks, months or years for the basics, or even advanced knowledge when often it’s little more than a notebook worth of learning.

All those thousands of years wasted so that HR managers can apply a box-ticking exercise.