Education

The continuing failure of Britain's education system to turn out the kind of recruits that British industry says it needs but is not getting, is not helped, of course, by recession and mounting unemployment. Before recession, the education system was allegedly not producing the goods, during recession it can hardly be blamed for not producing them — in view of educational cutbacks and zero job prospects — while after the recession (if, indeed there is to be an after) it will probably be in no better shape than it was before.