ABSTRACT
It seems that, at least in some quarters, an orthodoxy is growing up, to the effect that one major way of tackling the rising menace of unemployment is ‘a reform of the educational system’. Exactly what is to be reformed and how is not always stated, but in general it is assumed that it would be ‘less literary’, ‘less academic’, ‘more suited to the real needs of developing countries’, et hoc genus omne.
