>Well, this not much has to do with your problem but I can imagine even here the companies and their hirerers don't have much fun either.
The decline of education comes because industry pulled out of funding education. They expect kids to fund education with loans, parents to fund living with mortgages, and the profits of labour are still split 50/50 because company's "investment" goes all into running a race to the bottom with competing corporations.

Companies shamelessly blame education on not being form-fitted to their needs, when they don't take any responsibility on forming the curriculum.