The reason I advocate vocational style education is that it is inherently similar to SRS. Academic coursework is not, and students won't go out of their way to

The reason I advocate vocational style education is that it is inherently similar to SRS. Academic coursework is not, and students won't go out of their way to continue learning from previous quarters/semesters (although this is where CS is slightly different than other engineering disciplines, since you can program for fun in your spare time and it may correspond with what you have learned).