That was the damning verdict of a major independent review of education in Wales commissioned by the Welsh government following poor performance in the PISA tests.
While the report, entitled Improving Schools in Wales: An OECD perspective, praised “positive” learning conditions, good teacher-student relationships, and concluded that student performance is less dependent on a student’s school or background than the OECD average, it found many weaknesses in the wider system.
It was critical of the pace of change, stating it had added to “a growing sense that stakeholders are overwhelmed by the many changes and have no clear understanding of the long-term goals beyond the current aspiration to be among the 20 best-performing education systems on PISA in reading by 2015”.
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