Beyond the crude rankings of countries in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) international league tables (OECD, 2019), there lies a wealth of interesting data which give insight into the education systems of more than 70 countries.
One of the most interesting, for the UK, is that there is a wider than international average gap between high and low performing students. This gap is strongly linked to levels of parental income.
While nearly a quarter of the UK’s advantaged students perform at the highest level in reading, only five per cent of disadvantaged students achieve that same level. This is a highly significant difference in the progress made by these two groups of young people by the age of 15.
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