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Howard, I think it is all about standards in education at the end of the day. Some would have you believe we, the UK, have a successful education system. Compared to some third world countries, we do.
One of the problems we face is what can only be described as the dumbing down of the university system, where mostly irrelevant subjects like media studies now fill the curriculum. Furthermore, the standards of subjcts (English, History, Geography) taught in the secondary schools is surprisingly poor. As an employer I have seen the paucity of grammar skills from candidates applying for junior and senior roles. Candidates asked general knowledge questions relevant to the post don't appear to have even a basic grasp of modern history or geography.
Before politicians began meddling with the state system there was much learning by rote, discipline and emphasis on the 3R's. The comprehensive system changed all this and now has a worse record on these than the traditional Secondary Schools of our day where numbskulls not fit for society, like me, were sent.
It just seems to me that since the 1960's, education has been on a long but relentless downward spiral, not helped by politicians interfering for social engineering reasons, rather than educational ones.