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Why too late? First thing is to ditch multiple choice exams, prefer essay type questions. That instantly makes it much harder to cheat. Ditch also homework unless they are essays, and finally makes exams physically, old school style, without computer.

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Even as recently as the late 90s or early 2000s, I think most people would have concurred that a degree represented some amount of training and skills, earned with some amount of legitimacy, from most institutions.

I don't think that's true anymore.

I agree, and now I understand why it is difficult to find decent engineers from the new crop

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