One example of this is in higher education, where the Department of Education has recently tried to define the credit hour in three discreet ways in a specific regulation, which would lock the system further into a seat time regulation you can read about it here.

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This is partly the fault of a primitive banking system: there are no cheques, few credit cards, and paying by bank-transfer means an hour or so in a smelly queue.

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