It's a very small step in the right direction. However I think that a more general financial training center, maybe with bitcoin playing a bigger part of the curriculum, would be more beneficial for the people who might be attending. It takes money to make money sort of thing, what good is bitcoin education if you do not have the foundational blocks of training in all kinds of other finances. There are many ways to lose money in the world which people need to be aware of and it might not always be taught well at school.
I kinda like the idea of a financial training center with Bitcoin trading being the most important part of the curriculum like you said.
It's obviously not logical to teach a course without showing or illustrating how it can be applied in the real world.
Bitcoin trading is just a part, the main centric objective is the elimination of the intermediary. Through the academy this needs to be educated than the trading, because this is the reason for which Satoshi innovated bitcoin. In my understanding bitcoin trading is important for the market progress and circulation. Apart, it has gained more importance through different reasons. One of which is the limited supply which has the ability to resist inflation against the infinite printing of currency.