Better education works elsewhere, so it's probably not where the problem is.
Did I give the impression that better education is sufficient to solve the problem?
* The British system may not be superior, I left uni in 2006 and the UK in 2018, and UK politicians have been fiddling with education seemingly forever.
But that just means you should substitute whichever country is doing education best at the moment; the point is, even obviously correct things are still hard in the world of politics.