[wisty]

They could do a 6 month course in "Industry practice", where the students learn unit testing, source control, web apps, GUI even loops, design patterns, documentation in industry, and so on.

I'd certainly agree that unis are more competitive at teaching theory (algorithms, math, AI, data-mining, simulations, etc) than practice. When they try to teach industry practice, it's in danger of turning into those nightmare OO courses - all pretension and no idea

oooo, a John isa student (a subclass of person); and Mr Smith isa lecturer (which is a subclass of academic, which is a subclass of person), and our tutor is an example of multiple inheritance!