A coding school with an employer guarantee, paid for by the employer at the end

The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.

Visit the hiring managers of five software firms and ask what a junior developer must be able to do on day one, and what they spend hiring one now. Ask whether they would pay a placement fee at the end for a graduate who met that standard. Signed letters saying yes, with the fee written in, are the proof, and the day-one list becomes the syllabus.

Who pays first

A software firm hiring junior developers, which pays a placement fee because it saves the cost and risk of hiring untrained graduates.

What leaves today

School leavers without a university place drift into low-paid work, when a few months of targeted training would make them employable.

Whether a fee-taking training course must be registered, what the employer letters commit to in writing, and how a student who is not placed is treated.

Switzerland's apprenticeships. Chapter Fourteen

"Swiss studies find most firms earn back what an apprentice costs them before the apprenticeship even ends."

Employers pay willingly when the trainee earns back the cost, so build the course around that proof.

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?