[keyboardwarrior]

The other side of the story is that they probably want a consistent approach to education,

having people go "unconventional" as they say.

might work but it also might backfire. Its like being on the bleeding edge.You might bleed.

I think the fast food analogy plays on the fact that every burger should be equal quality.

Innovation comes at a cost in education, you are playing with lives.

[mianos]

Surely gathering performance metrics and analysing them is the method of avoiding the backfire? Surveying downstream faculties and see how they like the results is another way to measure and move forward from a system of cronies with a low risk of degradation.