While I agree enough to upvote your comment...
"still trying to teach them the basics of Excel, such as how to type into a cell." At university level I have to say "if only they would'. Kids coming in are 'computer confident' but beyond using social media they are completely IT-clueless for the most part. Don't even understand concepts as basic as what a filesystem is, or or basic awareness of codecs (in a media-production major).
And that is just the students - last week I was tasked to create a PowerPoint (gak!) slideshow in a hurry for a lecturer (definitely not my job) because the trainee office admin person didn't know how to operate the most basic functions of such software.
Of course the chances of the government money going into teaching real useful information skills is pretty slim anyway, no matter what they budget.