Re: Elision
Probably because of the way the courses and degrees are organized so they can be attended/acquired over a protracted time as allowed by real life and finances.
Marry the American idea of modular courses that grant credits with what used to be the high quality of British university level learning (a thing of the past in some cases, I'm seeing from real life example) and what I understand the Swedish model for financing to be (you get a free ride and sign over a given amount of your time after graduation to government service to "pay it back") with a loan buyout option and you'd have a truly great tool for further education, one that would allow the student to adjust their learning to accommodate their career options "on the fly" as it were.
Governments would get the graduate skills they need to make their countries competitive whether in government or the private sector. Win win.
Or we could keep charging an arm and a leg to have broke grads who *think* they know how to do stuff we needed five years before but not so much now (and likely will need to be almost completely re-trained to become useful anyway).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
