Most of the technical universities are bordering becoming obsolete today. They need to change and adapt if they want to serve the public further on but as the field of technology deepens and expands, they'll not just become obsolete, but they'll become a force for regression and stagnation. There is no reason why people should waste 4-5 years of their lives in an institution that is basically drying them and not letting people expand their wings fully.
The germans are ofc, as they always been, ahead of the curve on this topic. They have generous and well structured internship and educational programs where students go into companies to learn adn work from the ground up, instead of heading to university. You learn much more and much faster and have access to the newest and greatest at the age of 18 or 19 rather than 23 or 24 when people finish up with college.
Ofc, there is a better way to go about it. Universities should become a focus point of technological research funded by the state and their mission for education should become complementary. In other words, highschools should become the places where people discover themselves and what they love and want to do in life and universities should become the places where they can complement their workplace education with things that will benefit them both at work and in life. Like if you find out you wanna become a programmer in highschool, you go get an apprenticeship or an internship if you will at a company where you learn these things and then you enroll in college just to find specialized information, like for instance, learn about computer arhitecture to know more about the hardware part than the software part you get from work. Or learn about what's going on in the rest of the world of technology.
But today, highschool is just the stupid dump which you have to go through to get to college where you actually find out what you want in life and waste a few more years. Pathetic. I blame the educational system for making me waste a few years of my life because it never helped me discover my talents or my ambitions, instead, it always enforced stupid, senseless norms based on an arbitrary definition. And like me, millions accross the world.
It's unfit for this century. It was great until a few decades ago, until the computer revolution, it's unfit now.