Sentences with phrase «international league tables»

But does that acclaim exist mainly because of the country's consistent high placement in international league tables such as the OECD's Pisa or is there more to this system's story?

In comparison, East Asian education systems — which traditionally top international league tables — teach fewer topics in more depth and emphasise understanding.

And just a few months ago she repeated the discredited assertion that UK pupils had plummeted down international league tables in ten years since 2000.

Students from Massachusetts, our best performing state, place 17th in international league tables for advanced math skills.

«Before 2010, pupils received successively higher grades at GCSE each year, but in international league tables England's performance stagnated.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016 - 2017 list the 980 top universities in the world, making it our biggest international league table to date.

The speed with which we slid down international league tables under the previous government is one of the starkest examples of their failure.

The UK has been slipping down international league tables over the past 10 years for maths, literacy and science, he says.

And it is certainly true that a «baccalaureate» system is operated by many European and Asian countries that are now positioned above the UK in these international league tables.

It is the reason that countries like Singapore and Shanghai have shot up the international leagues tables.

This perhaps explains why, in another OECD report («Education at a Glance, 2010»), the countries and regions that top the international league table of reading standards are those that are both high - spending and have more affluent populations.