Important insight about high schools' perceptions when choosing what university they go to - choices are more based on reputation, facilities, fees etc. and not so much about perceived quality of professors/teaching because such things are not advertised/communicated. https://twitter.com/stephanPhD/status/1278460053830266880

From where I see it there's a two-fold problem: it's hard to advertise quality of teaching because the majority of it is done by sessionals, it's hard to make sweeping generalisations.

At the same time, students don't know who they're going to get unless informed in advance.

So I'd wager that it essentially boils down to 'Well, a university with better reputation would be more likely to have better teachers' which...I won't really debate. But in the end it's understandable how it ended up this way.

On the bright side, educators who get students asking if they're going to teach/tutor in other subjects means a lot more in that context because it's saying "Hey, we'd rather have you instead of rolling the dice once again on our tutors/lecturers next semester!"