Who cares about "the actual need of employers"? If they have needs, they can see to it that they are met. Create their own schools or educate people on the job or whatever, it's not a purpose of educational institutions like universities and so on.
And yet, every college and University in the US advertises the job placement rate of graduates.
I myself considered a track that would lead to law school, and one of the things that stopped me was there were a growing number of lawsuits against schools for falsely inflating their numbers.
99% of college students and 100% of college administrators whose schools will all cease to exist if they can't convince those students to enroll and pay tuition.
They most certainly are. Their continued survival requires keeping revenue at or above expenses just like any other business. They have employees. They have customers. They sell merch. They have professional sports teams (which don't pay their players). They even own hedge funds (which don't have to pay taxes).
