The entire "education industry" is a massive scam. Kids are being scammed out of upwards of £50,000 for a degree which turns out to be no more than an entry ticket to the HR doorkeepers. I've worked with people with loads of scraps of paper that "proved their worth" to HR but proved to be utterly useless on the job.
I got the BCS qualification half a century ago (but baled out of ongoing membership after a few years). To get that scrap of paper I learned Fortran (not very well and swore never to go near program code again); I learnt design of digital circuits (using logic gates to design a half-adder); I can explain how core memory works in detail (all that useful stuff about ferrite core hysteresis curves); I can even tell you about older alternative storage technologies like mercury delay lines. Has any of it proved useful?
The HR gatekeepers liked it, apart from that not even the bit about "programming: never again" came in useful although later I made a reasonable career from a handful of other languages.
At an earlier time I'd been studying accounts, the tutor eventually said "I don't know why you're coming to the classes, there's no way you'll ever pass the exam" so I stopped going, bought a good text-book on the subject and did very well in the exam.
At school 15 years ago my son did computer studies. Came home and "teacher said" he'd need a copy of Dreamweaver (because it's what the professional use - an argument similar to "want to learn to fly?" ... "OK jump into this fast-jet fighter" I would content that starting in a little propellor 2-seat trainer might be a better starting point). At the time Dreamweaver was priced at about £400 but it had been suggested that "it might be possible to find a copy free on the internet" so at least they were teaching software piracy as a useful skill...
Dreamweaver was already beginning to look like a dead end and didn't even deliver any worthwhile transferable skills. A homework task involved building a web page with a form, specifying that the submit button should be implemented using Flash! They also "learned" Microsoft Office - not in any depth and not generic "spreadsheets" but MS specific Excel - at least that has come in useful now he's an accountant, unlike what he learned about particle physics which I suspect has resulted in vanishingly few careers in particle physics.
I'm in favour of a far more versatile system of learning - on the job training, small modules, kept up-to-date by an involved practitioner and relevant to an upcoming task.
Being married to a university professor my opinions are "contentious" in our household!