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by dutchmartin 2025 days ago
I would argue that universities have two tasks: 1. Do research to expand knowledge. 2. Educate new researchers. Big tech just wants highly skilled researchers in their workforce, but there only N students graduating every year. So it is only logical for them to "help" (can be good or bad) the university so n+m students graduate. But the bad thing is that the push for more education can negativly impact the available research time professors have.
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> Big tech just wants highly skilled researchers in their workforce

Are you really sure that big tech wants these people in their workforce? At least the typical tech job interview process tests for quite different skills.