the university or the government does not project these things and adjust the available program sizes
They kinda do, but only the part where they increase program sizes after demand exists and only wind down when the market is saturated. They can’t really work too far ahead if they don’t know ow something will be in demand and they don’t want to tell students to not do something they offer just because there are too many graduates. Add the four or five years to graduation and you get a system that lags behind reality even if the planning was better.
But a well designed post secondary education means graduates can go into similar or related fields, they aren’t limited to what is on their diploma except in their own minds.
They kinda do, but only the part where they increase program sizes after demand exists and only wind down when the market is saturated. They can’t really work too far ahead if they don’t know ow something will be in demand and they don’t want to tell students to not do something they offer just because there are too many graduates. Add the four or five years to graduation and you get a system that lags behind reality even if the planning was better.
But a well designed post secondary education means graduates can go into similar or related fields, they aren’t limited to what is on their diploma except in their own minds.