[Livia]

I have young people come to me for internship or work experience while at Uni and although some of them are great, some of them struggle with the simplest of tasks. They're at university and their spelling and general written work is appalling. What's more, they don't think it matters that much or will affect them in their career. When I look at their A Level results some of them, amazingly, are pretty good. How can that be? How can you get a good mark when you can't write in your own language in complete sentences or use an apostrophe?

Every year more people are passing A levels with higher grades, and I honestly don't believe that is because teaching is getting better or young people are getting cleverer.