Is Higher Education a Cartel? Gary North Explains

In his 2000 essay, The Coming Breakdown of the Academic Cartel, Gary North says the following:

In higher education, government-enforced accreditation restricts the spread of new ideas, new methodologies, and above all, new technologies that enable producers to lower prices. This is how higher education has become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry.