How much *should* public college cost?

[ucbalumnus]

@gwnorth

In other words they want tax payers, prospective employees, competitors, and/or another country, to foot the bill of providing their new employees with the requisite 2-5 years of experience and then they will just poach them instead of doing the training themselves. They are passing the buck.

Exactly, just like in the US.

Regarding co-op programs, they are fairly common in the US, at least for engineering, though only a few universities make them a prominent part of the bachelor’s degree programs. But that still does not prevent a student who did a co-op at employer X from choosing employer Y at graduation.