Before the Christmas break, you could have been forgiven for feeling a little glum about the picture for education in the UK, following media and ministerial reactions to the latest round of results from PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment).
However, one of the good news stories from PISA was that pupils in England are happier at school than many of their global counterparts – with 84 per cent of the 15-year-olds surveyed agreeing or strongly agreeing that they were happy at school, compared to the 80 per cent OECD average.
Significantly, 72 per cent of England’s pupils also agreed or strongly agreed that “things are ideal in my school” – a far higher proportion than the OECD average of 61 per cent.
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