I definitely think there ought to be courses on such things available. There should be an educational route that is between pure academia which focusses on esoterica that is only relevant to research and vocational courses that don't include much innthe way of theory at all. The idea that industry ought to pay for it presumably comes from a background where universities are private an expensive. But I'd like to live in a world where these kind of courses were government subsidised and available for free or cheap.
> The idea that industry ought to pay for it presumably comes from a background where universities are private an expensive.
In the US at least, where even public universities are ridiculously expensive, there's no way to keep the current system running unless our grads are able to get jobs that pay well when they graduate. Indirectly industry is paying for the courses taught by universities. In the current environment we need to prepare students for employment.
> I'd like to live in a world where these kind of courses were government subsidised and available for free or cheap.
I think we'd be better off as a country (US). I also think that ship has sailed and it sank to the bottom of ocean a couple decades ago.
I tend to think of most university education as taxpayer and student subsidized versions of the sort of training that companies should be doing. I think, for most programmers, a well-thought-out apprenticeship program would be better both for them and for the company, except that the amount of money we send to universities makes this economically infeasible.
