Education - saying the unsayable

Prince Charles got hammered when he suggested that our education systems were not delivering for the children or for society. In Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved? on silicon.com a prominent futurologist makes a similar point. I'll restrict my comment on the issue to the observation that in my current attempts to recruit high tech workers, less than 25% of the CVs I see are from British nationals.