Its survey of 1,000 14- to 19-year-olds found that 83 per cent thought school was unexciting, 45 per cent were not interested in school work being set and three-quarters believed that the current education system needs radical reform.
Around four out of ten went so far as to describe school as irrelevant and boring.
Another concern voiced by just over half of 15- to 16-year-olds was that schools failed to prepare them for employment.
These latest figures have been released to promote a campaign by Edge called Six Steps to Change, which calls for an overhaul of the curriculum to better prepare pupils for adulthood and employment.
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