I agree with most of your points. But disagree with the fact that universities should teach only theoretical aspects. Apart from the top ivy league schools, ma

I agree with most of your points. But disagree with the fact that universities should teach only theoretical aspects. Apart from the top ivy league schools, many schools are not going to teach the theory stuff well anyway. And teaching the tools (not JIRA but, say git and docker) are not dry carpentry, there are concepts which a computer science student should be equipped to understand. Last time I remember, an MIT course on programming tools gained traction on this site. As for not contributing to OSS projects right away, I agree, universities should rather have a project after each course completion so that students get to exercise the concepts.