I don't live in the USA nor grew up there, and "invigilator" was a job title when I went to school. Usually people who wanted a bit of part time work. Mums, retirees, students, that sort of thing. It doesn't take much time or skill and is a nice way to help out in the local community so they had plenty of takers.
> I have a course on building web apps. Not 2h prototypes, but apps that take days to build. Do you think it's the same as a 2h exam? Do you think we are police officers or what?!
Nope. You have to watch them do it anyway, if you want your credentials to mean anything. Arguably they already don't, very few companies are willing to hire a software developer given just a proof of a degree exactly because universities are so willing to graduate people who can't do the work. But that's not sustainable. It may take decades but that path leads to Venezuela. Eventually, this will catch up with universities and they will be gone because they're not delivering value.
> the tuition is very cheap (around 700€/year)
The price charged up front is 700EUR/year but the cost is a lot higher than that, obviously. All your government does with this policy is force everyone else to pay for the industrial-scale production of well rewarded cheaters, enabled by professors who don't care enough to stop them. It's a socially corrosive policy.
> I have a course on building web apps. Not 2h prototypes, but apps that take days to build. Do you think it's the same as a 2h exam? Do you think we are police officers or what?!
Nope. You have to watch them do it anyway, if you want your credentials to mean anything. Arguably they already don't, very few companies are willing to hire a software developer given just a proof of a degree exactly because universities are so willing to graduate people who can't do the work. But that's not sustainable. It may take decades but that path leads to Venezuela. Eventually, this will catch up with universities and they will be gone because they're not delivering value.
> the tuition is very cheap (around 700€/year)
The price charged up front is 700EUR/year but the cost is a lot higher than that, obviously. All your government does with this policy is force everyone else to pay for the industrial-scale production of well rewarded cheaters, enabled by professors who don't care enough to stop them. It's a socially corrosive policy.