Awesome article. followed an upvoted.
This is something I deal with only a daily basis working in the online education market catering for working professionals that in an economy experiencing such high rates of technological disruption and change are finding that their degrees have almost no bearing in the current job market.
While I believe that there will always be a place for traditional University education, I also feel that people are fast realising that this education is in fact suited to academia and not the workplace.