People at 12 years education today are less capable than people at 12 years a few decades ago. Long-time university lecturers dismay at having to teach first-ye

People at 12 years education today are less capable than people at 12 years a few decades ago. Long-time university lecturers dismay at having to teach first-years in basic skills they used to arrive with. I can't find it now (at work), but on youtube Brady Haran interviews some lecturers on this topic - one pulls out an A-levels engineering exam from the early 80s, and the questions are dense paragraphs expecting you to apply learned knowledge. Then he pulls out the A-level paper for that year (2013, I think) and the first question is "pick the correct picture that is hydropower", with four pictures of different power generation mechanisms. Easily answerable by anyone who didn't do the course. "The questions get harder, though?" > "Yes, but not substantially".