For my entire I've been listening to organisations purporting to represent employers slag of the education system for not being sufficiently vocationally-focuse

For my entire I've been listening to organisations purporting to represent employers slag of the education system for not being sufficiently vocationally-focused - for not just eternally chasing a narrow range of whatever skills will turn out good little technicians at no cost to employers - while denigrating anything outside that narrow focus as basket-weaving. And the political landscape in the English-speaking world has largely gone along with that. They have what they asked for. Whoops.