Online resources like KhanAcademy.org can help train people in math skills much more quickly, more effectively, and less expensively than colleges anyway.
If a company wants some of its people to have degrees in certain applicable subjects, it can send them to night school (even online).
This is a great model that has been a long time coming.
Excellent observations.
The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine is send some of its more motivated and reliable employees to study electronics, power engineering, and so forth to a two year community college or to a four year career oriented college, Maine Maritime Academy, to earn a BS degree in power engineering.
I think we will be seeing more employers hiring new workers and if they measure up pay for them to attend community colleges or four year colleges. One thing is certain those students will NOT be majoring in Women Studies or Sociology.