TL;DR - Universities don't provide employable skills, Companies don't train, therefore people (affluent parents?) pay for training which may lead to employment

TL;DR - Universities don't provide employable skills, Companies don't train, therefore people (affluent parents?) pay for training which may lead to employment Isn't this about the difference between no job and some job? AFAIK a lot of UK students aren't finding jobs and so there are various 'schemes' where (their parents) pay for skills and then maybe they get work. I think there is still a lot of decent paid dev work in London if you can get your foot in the door. I think it's hard to get your foot in the door for your first job if you have no differentiation - this provides differentiation. Of course github projects would be better - but this is probably not targeted at HN readers.