[j45]

Universities are companies too.

There is lots of education that can’t happen that companies have to fend for themselves and create materials to teach.

70% of learning is informal learning, outside of the classroom.

The master/apprentice model has existed for so long for a reason.

Learning the work is best done beside experience.

[b20000]

PRIVATE universities maybe. I graduated at a public university.

companies need to educate you on the job. that will never change and it is unreasonable to demand you already have all skills ready to go. but that is where we are in the US….

it is also crazy that you need to copy paste job requirements into your CV role per role. a resume or CV is something you make ONCE. but i guess HR drones are too dumb to read so that is where we are.

[j45]

We pay one group to teach us and expect a different group to pay us and teach us?

Reality for the many might be somewhere in the middle, off to one side.. there’s academic organizations with billions not pushing it off into organizations with millions to deliver what students paid tuition for.. relatively speaking?

Companies don’t always have to hire graduates to educate them on the job. Profession and career development so important but a part of the work.

It’s a skewed tech reality distortion field where tech companies compete by playing defence to tie up labour so others can’t grow… that results in those pesky mass layoffs. Repeatedly.

Organizations very well may take over educating the workforce and leverage it like salarymen in Japan, low pay for lots of hours and stability. Not sure if I like that either.

Or maybe they’ll just take the demands for remote work locally and let it be a global market.

In the scenarios where a company is paying to educate you .. for free .. in addition to paying you a salary.. to learn? That you’ll become more valuable with, not necessarily give back or create value greater than what you’ve been paid, in addition to you paying an academic institution money to learn.. often under debt is.. sound?

The gap between academic degrees and the workforce is generally increasing without cherry picking small groups as exceptions.

Historically, Universities that taught you how to think didn’t have STEM. They consciously moved from liberal arts into into stem for the funding opportunities.

Most of all I believe everyone has a right to learn and access opportunities to improve their life. The above doesn’t sound like it’s meant to speed that up.

Happy to learn from other perspectives.