OECD Report Challenges English Higher Education

A disturbing report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has revealed that English students are falling behind other developed nations in the acquisition of basic literacy and numeracy skills. Northern Ireland students do somewhat better while Scotland and Wales did not take part in the survey on which the report is based. The best performing countries for literacy skills among 16-19 year-olds are Korea, Japan, Netherlands, Finland and Estonia. For numeracy skills they are Korea, Netherlands, Japan, Finland and Slovakia. More...