telegraph | British schoolchildren are lagging so far behind their peers in the Far East
that even pupils from wealthy backgrounds are now performing worse in exams
than the poorest students in China, an international study shows.
The children of factory workers and cleaners in parts of the Far East are more
than a year ahead of the offspring of British doctors and lawyers, according
to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Researchers said the study, which looked at the performance of 15-year-olds in
mathematics, showed countries to could overcome traditional social class
divides to raise education standards among relatively deprived pupils.
The report was published as a senior European Commission politician attacked
the standards of British schools and warned that UK politicians must improve
the education system before focusing on changing the country’s relationship
with the EU.
Viviane Reding, the vice-president of the European Commission, warned that
ministers should focus on raising school standards instead of blaming the
country’s problems on foreigners. In a speech in Cambridge she suggested
that the UK’s poor education system is the reason Britons cannot compete
with foreigners for jobs. She said politicians needed to “work on the
quality of education and welfare, so that people in this country can find
employment and enjoy reasonable social standards”
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