I`ve been saying something similar for over thirty years.

The issues are i) how to get people to see it;  ii) how to beat back the snobbery around the idea of university education (very good!) versus college or polytechnic education (not so good!).   

Right now, universities are so overblown and broad in Canada that they don`t serve students well generally, including the ones who are well-suited to the academic and intellectual stream that is what university is supposed to be.

I remember fearing in high school that university was going to be the equivalent of a factory-farm to produce graduates with credentials.  Apart from a handful of classes where the profs were firm and clear in their expectation that people produce original (i.e., their own) work and show their thinking, this fear was not misplaced based on my experience.