&gt; And between them, we have colleges that offer students educational groundwork in computer science but don’t want to transform into coding trade schools.<p>&gt; Budding engineers are talented and eager to learn. And schools are right — their job is to educate, not to train. The duty of cultivating talent lies with employers.<p>The &quot;tech talent shortage&quot; is a result of the failure of colleges to actually deliver the vocational training services they advertise.  Students invest huge sums of money and take on unsustainable student loan debt to pay colleges to &quot;educate&quot; them and adequately train them in a profession. Why is it unreasonable for employers to expect that colleges take on the burden of &quot;making engineers&quot;?<p>In a labor market you need to have a properly functioning supply and demand side to ensure that market is efficient.  In our economy the demand side (students, employers) is highly functional, innovative and more creative than ever. Yet the supply side (colleges) is both backward and highly dysfunctional.<p>The college&#x27;s reckless freewheeling management of the supply side of the market is leading to dangerous levels of student loan debt which is a huge risk to our entire financial system.