Moving away from one size fits all

Research from Edge, the independent education foundation, shows that 40% of 15-16 year olds are failing to flourish in class.  It is urging the government to move away from the one size fits all policy, to one that gives young people the chance to "develop their own talents through real world experience".  More than two fifths of parents said that they felt that their children were not prepared for the world of work.  I bang on continually about the need to end the gulf between "schooling" and work and that to compete in a global marketplace we cannot keep unleashing spoon-fed and uninspired young people into the workforce.  Nice to hear it being backed up by research.  However I take issue with the part that described signals of unhappiness in young people being "late nights out and constantly visiting social networking sites".  Surely that is simply a signal of being...er...young?