No complacency despite good results

A return to top rankings in reading and maths should not lead to complacency over school reforms, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has said.

No complacency despite good results

Test results from 65 countries show Irish 15-year-olds are among the top 10 in the developed world at reading and science, and are well above average at maths.

The scores come as a major relief to the Government after alarm over the last round of OECD testing in 2009 in which maths and reading scores fell dramatically, as did our rankings internationally.

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