Education vs. work skills: what do employers really want?

> He called that “problem number one” in the disconnect between academia and the working world.

No. The problem number one is the disconnect between what the working world wants and what academia was deisgned for, what was suited for, and what should be doing, all at once. Academia should not produce manufacture-skilled workers. Manufactures (now called "the industry") should teach the students how to work, as they have the skills, the environment, and the projects that show how one should work in the industry.

Academia uses half-a-year semesters, which is too short to see any of the long-term effects the IT industry experiences. On the other hand, the semesters are totally adequate to teach plenty of fields today's graduates haven't ever seen, but which would broaden the graduates' minds.

If IT companies want to see any skilled workers, they should invest in training them themselves.