When a family chooses a university, they are usually asking one question: will this lead to a good job? It is a fair question, and a placement report answers it. But it is the wrong question to stop at. A degree that lands a graduate their first job and then ages badly has done only half of what a good education should. The job market a student enters at twenty-two may look very different by the time they are thirty-two, and the gap between those two worlds is widening as the pace of change quickens. Industry-linked labs give students hands-on experience with systems they are likely to encounter in the workplace This is the deeper problem a university has to solve. Not simply how to make a graduate employable on the day they leave, but how to make them the kind of professional who stays relevant as their industry keeps reinventing itself. That is a much harder thing to teach, and it is the real measure of whether an institution is keeping pace with the …