Making the grade, but our sums still don’t add up

YESTERDAY’S publication of the latest report from the OECD on the performance of 15-year-old students in reading, maths, and science has some very welcome news for Ireland.

Making the grade, but our sums still don’t add up

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for 2012 shows that our 15-year-olds have made dramatic improvements in science and are now ranked ninth out of 34 OECD countries. This is up five places since the last PISA results were published three years ago.

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