Setting out the detail of the plan to drive up standards, Wales’s education minister Leighton Andrews said success would be measured on the performance of students at GCSE level.
He wants 65 per cent to gain the Level 2 threshold including in English, Welsh and maths by 2015. Currently less than 50 per cent achieve this level.
The minister said the poor rankings Wales achieved in the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2009 had been a “wake-up call”. His goal now is to ensure Wales is ranked in the top 20 countries by 2015.
The Welsh government set out a 20-point action plan to drive up standards and performance last year. And with implementation under way it has detailed its expectations of primary and secondary schools in a new report called Improving Schools. The priorities are to improve literacy and numeracy, and reduce the impact of deprivation on educational outcomes.
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