This article highlights something which I think will become a growing issue. Higher education is becoming prohibitively expensive for many young people, and often doesn't deliver (and isn't intended to deliver) the sort of training which employers seem to want. There's a need for better and more accessible vocational training, but at the same time a reluctance from government and employers to get involved with it - both seeing it as someone else's responsibility.
Probably this is an opportunity in disguise for some new kind of vocational training system to emerge.
While it might be a new opportunity, I think there is too much lobbying in Washington to protect the interest of the status quo and not the students'. Education is a big money machine, and since there's enough groups and individuals who want to keep it as is, it may very well stay as is.
We live in a world that has outgrown the current education system.
I do think that vocational education in terms of job ready skills does need to be separated in some way from a theoretical university education which isn't designed to what employers want. The problem is I don't know if universities could afford to maintain the more traditional form of education while also offering vocational training.
Probably this is an opportunity in disguise for some new kind of vocational training system to emerge.