What the heck does this have to do with the article? It is an in-direct issue, and yes - relevant (says a man with 3 kids, one of which is at Guelph in....undergrad). 
This article is about driving universities to meet market demand for graduate work - which as a biomedical researcher I can tell you is not what they're pumping out at this point - there is still an enormous amount of mis-understanding about industry in the hallowed halls of academia