Many took jobs requiring only high school skills.
They have to talk to each other and rely on 'old school' skills.
An increase in primary-school skills should eventually improve results all along the line.But secondary schools remain a problem.
"This year, there is a definite rise in young, cool artists introducing old-school skills into their work," Mr. Hadjadj said.
Ms. Silvestri says she believes that memory training resurrects a holy trinity of old-school skills, countering the computer age with pencil and paper.
How do we bring parents in to support social school skills?" Students who are suspended cannot return to school unless their parents come with them.
When the aged are given all the time that they wish on tests that are not heavily dependent on school skills, their performance is only slightly poorer than that of young adults.
George Osborne will announce plans this week to plug gaps in the school skills shortage by offering highly qualified maths and physics postgraduates £40,000 salaries if they go straight into teaching.
George Osborne said that an extra £5.5bn investment in roads, schools, skills and science would be paid for in the main by cutting departmental budgets by 1% next year, 2013-14, and 2% the year after.
This will need educational reforms which lead more students to graduate from high school (skills were superfluous in the old, construction and tourism-driven growth model), and create institutions of international excellence.
