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.

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.