Excellent question. And it's undeniable that standards have changed, ie have been lowered dramatically. A 99% A level success rate in the Isle of Man is not normal, and would never have been possible with more rigorous standards of years gone by. So why have standards been lowered so dramatically? So many reasons. Curriculum reform, modernisation, ie a move away from knowledge learning and a shift to "digital skills", ie supposed job skills, but if you think about it, we now have 50% of university teachers being female, as the equality fanatics wanted. Why has the accession of smarter, harder working females not led to a golden age in academia with proper standards, and led instead to a system rife with fraud, ludicrous standards and lower funding? And there are clear funding issues in education, particularly since Chinese students aren't coming to the UK anymore, some UK universities had to cut back offerings and increase class size. Imagine what will happen when AI teaching makes a grand entrance. But perhaps our kids will be so smart by then they won't need university education. 99% pass rate for A - levels in the Isle of Man is very impressive after all.
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