Sentences with phrase «education league»

Parents in Wales should do more to help raise standards in schools, the man responsible for the international education league table Pisa says.

It is consistently ranked at or close to the top in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tables and other international education league tables, a fact which has made it a focus for educationalists all over the world who want to study the secrets of its success.

The next set of Pisa global education league tables are published next week, and Wales has been lagging far behind the top performing countries such as Finland.

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For the past decade the UK has been positioned at the top of the international education league in terms of the significant government investment in ICT in education and its corresponding implementation in the classroom.

And yet, the UK comes top of the OECD education league tables for the prevalence of memorisation, rehearsal, routine exercises, drill and practice and / or repetition.

Education spokesman Darren Millar AM said: «In spite of all the tough talking and promises to do better from the first minister, today's figures place us, yet again, in the bottom half of the global education league table and re-confirm Wales» status as the worst performing school system in the UK.»

It also says England is slipping down international education league tables compared to other countries.

Sorry, could have pointed out that in 2000, virtually entirely as a result of Tories we were 3 / 4/5 in the international education league tables and under Labour we are now 13/14/15.

OECD's Lessons from PISA for the United States noted, and I want to quote this exactly: «The higher a country is on the world's education league tables, the more likely that country is working constructively with its unions and treating its teachers as professional partners.»

Speaking to the Herald, Tilley said that she would like to see Oxfordshire get new grammar schools «as soon as possible», claiming that the county has «gone right down the education league» since the ban came into force.