Jr. may have spotted the stubbornly high youth unemployment rate, heard about rising prices and detected a declining return on investment from second tier degrees.
The government has seized the opportunity to reorganise higher education to bring it into line with international standards, in particular the three-tier degree system.
"Back education, not banks", demanded protesters fed up with overcrowded lecture halls, crumbling campuses, tuition fees and a chaotic conversion from the traditional diploma to a European two-tier degree system.German universities are underfunded by international standards (see chart).
The lack of a top-tier law degree can become a basis for attacking a nominee.
Still, I suspect I qualify, functionally and culturally, as part of Mr Murray's "new upper class", my middle-class background and third-tier university degrees notwithstanding.
Understandably, Astana are in no mood to facilitate their demotion to the sport's second tier, so a degree of foot-dragging can be expected; and if the commission rules against them, an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport is guaranteed.
They may be thought of generally as forming a pyramidal structure, with three tiers representing increasing degrees of specialization and technical sophistication but catering to diminishing numbers of patients as they are filtered out of the system at a lower level.
Most of them either can't compete and drop out or attend a low tier college and earn a degree that isn't economic.
Given that's now the third refusal by Facebook to confirm GDPR will apply universally, it looks pretty clear that users in North American will get some degree of second tier privacy vs international users — unless or until US lawmakers forcibly raise standards on the company and the industry as a whole.
The Law Commission criticised the current law on murder and homicide in England and Wales as a "rickety structure set upon shaky foundations" as long ago as 2005, and proposed a three-tier system of first-degree and second-degree murder and manslaughter.
