Yeah, webcams are prohibitively expensive for a University.
No. This is because remote learning makes these institutions obsolete and they're going to continue throwing their reputation around to try to prevent that.
Yeah exactly, because the only power of a university is that they keep the material they teach top secret. Just imagine if you could just go into a store and buy textbooks! What a crazy world that would be! Everyone would be a genius and have every degree imaginable!
That's the way its treated though; everyone assumes you don't know what you're doing if you haven't been to university because there's some top-secret stuff there that you couldn't have possibly found somewhere else.