Education is political. I quite agree with your point, degrees are being diluted. There are many degrees that should never have been created, they pull students into a trap of further study, sold to them on an the ‘university experience'. With issues of de skilling better placements and apprenticeships should be presented as viable and compelling alternative. We are heading into a university system that will be dominated by the privileged and then the rest who will be broken by debt.
If I had my time again I would re think my whole strategy. Learning to code would be one of them. I spent six year studying to enter into one of the most precarious industries, but am old enough to have got through my education before getting slammed by massive tuition fees.
I have a few jobs to support my practice and one of them is teaching. I spend a significant amount of time talking about the realities of creative industries and getting students to consider financial strategies and serious scrutiny of what really is the merit of further education and if they choose that route making sure they see it as work and how to make every penny of it count.