Do we really learn anything in University?

I have often wondered if we really learn anything in the three years and thousands of dollars we spend in University. The fact that all major companies insist on months-long training courses and associate programmes proves that the corporate world certainly feels that the average University graduate learns sweet buggerall. An University education is just proof you're intelligence it seems, nothing more than a drawn out IQ test.

I have a plan to resolve this situation. Hold you're bows and kisses till the conclusion though, for my idea is radical and not necessarily democratic. I plan to make the highest and lowest scoring students in every class submit a report to the Professor on the practical value of what they has learnt. The highest scoring student should be decently paid for this activity while the lowest student can get a grade upgrade for a good report. The students' reports should be matched against the Professor's own account of the practically useful material in the course. During the summer holidays, some poor sod, possibly an intern, should shift through the reports and make recommendations to Professors as to what they are lacking or doing well in.

Should the lack of practical knowledge in an University education worry us at all? My answer is a resounding YES. If an University education teaches us nothing, then we at the mercy of other people's large corporations. We are not taught the skills to start our businesses, become day traders or enter the workforce on the lower, practical end (where there are no elite training courses and school of hard knocks has a higher entry requirment for coddled college students).

In other words, a practical University degree ensures that if we miss the Mercedes and Beamers of the MNC world, we can take a bus or taxi. After 3 years of wasting our lives in lectures, we shouldn't be left walking in the rain.