Improving the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) performance and offering students internationally respected qualifications are part of the Welsh government’s latest plan to drive up standards, under the banner Qualified for Life.
The plan for three to 19-year-olds reinforces the Welsh government’s key education priorities of raising standards in literacy and numeracy and breaking the link between deprivation and low attainment. It also sets out a new target of achieving scores of at least 500 for reading, mathematics and science in the PISA tests 2021.
However opposition politicians have branded the new targets as “feeble”, stating that England and Scotland surpassed this PISA score two years ago.
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