And if we think that there isn't a massive disconnect between what colleges and universities are teaching our kids, and what companies need, look at what Google is doing.
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Hence Google's new Career Certificates in "the high-paying, high-growth career fields of Data Analytics, Project Management, and User Experience (UX) Design," which join their existing IT Support and IT Automation in Python Certificates. Hosted on the online education platform Coursera, these programs (which run about $300-$400) are developed in-house and taught by Google employees and require no previous experience. To help cover their cost Google will also fund 100,000 "need-based scholarships" and offer students "hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities" at the company "to provide real on-the-job training." None of this guarantees any given student a job at Google, of course, but as Walker emphasizes, "we will consider our new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree."
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http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/g...education.html
A 6 month program that is to Google, someone who is looking for high-end talent, the equivalent of a 4 year degree? Makes you wonder how bloody useless a company like Google thinks those 4 year programs have become.
Hopefully this spells the end of life for bloated tuition programs that accomplish nothing, and teach our kids nothing while at the same time spiraling them into massive loads of debt.