Actually they still are selection criteria....if you perform those skills in uni as a student, you receive a negative score on your (groupthink) assessment matrix. Seriously, I'm not joking... i was the only teacher in a very large team that openly refused to comply with this idiocy and reigned on my terms. The EU neo-liberal Bologna Agreement literally states its all about "harmonisation of the education market": the commodification of our students and thus future.