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> The decline of education comes because industry pulled out of funding education.
Here we have stable state-funded education, although there is also self-funded too (in state and private universities). But looks like this doesn't matter, I often seen proper "real programmers" with programming education, and they were hopeless, and there are plenty of people who have completely unrelated education and they were ok (I'm too have no coding background, I studied metallurgical technology for 5 years).
As far as I remember own uni, it was same - some people in out group were smart and hard-working, but most others didn't care at all, and had no real skills even in the end of education. So now I don't trust any education degree at all, it proves nothing, except basic things like "at least he can read and write".