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The first avowedly commercial enterprise, BPP College, has been authorised to award UK degrees http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7012203.stm . In my opinion, this will be the first of many. While no minister would say it, I believe that it is government’s hope that by increasing the numbers and types of suppliers of degrees that this will drive up efficiency and quality standards at the old polytechnics who are at present the bulk suppliers of degrees to the masses.