The university monopoly must be broken

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The university monopoly must be broken

A few months after the fact, the removal of Claudine Gay from the Harvard presidency increasingly looks like a watershed moment. Shortly after Gay’s ousting, the New York Times published a long piece titled “The Misguided War on the SAT”, defending standardised testing, which had fallen out of favour at elite colleges. In the past few weeks, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown have reinstated the SATs. High-profile business leaders such as Bill Ackman (a c