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Asian countries are in the TOP-5 in OECD global school rankings

BC, Riga, 14.05.2015.Print version
Latvia is in 24th place in global school rankings released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – ahead of Lithuania but way behind Estonia. Asian countries are in the top five places, reports LETA/BBC.

Estonia is in the respectable seventh place in the rankings that are based on maths and science at age 15. Lithuania is ranked 31st.

 

Singapore heads the table, followed by Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

 

At the bottom, there are Oman, Morocco, Honduras, South Africa, and Ghana.

 

This is the first global scale of the quality of education by the OECD, based on test scores in 76 countries and showing the link between education and economic growth.

 

The analysis, based on test scores in maths and science, is a much wider global map of education standards than the OECD's Pisa tests, which focus on more affluent industrialized countries. "This is the first time we have a truly global scale of the quality of education," said the OECD's Education Director Andreas Schleicher.

 

"The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long-term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them," he said.

 

The top performer, Singapore, had high levels of illiteracy into the 1960s, said Schleicher, showing how much progress could be made.

 

"If you go to an Asian classroom you'll find teachers who expect every student to succeed. There's a lot of rigor, a lot of focus and coherence," said Schleicher.

 

The report shows poor performance of the United States, slipping behind successful European countries and being overtaken by Vietnam. It also highlights the decline of Sweden, with the OECD warning last week that it had serious problems in its education system.

 

The full list of countries ranked on maths and science is as follows:

 

1. Singapore

2. Hong Kong

3. South Korea

4. Japan

4. Taiwan

6. Finland

7. Estonia

8. Switzerland

9. Netherlands

10. Canada

11. Poland

12. Vietnam

13. Germany

14. Australia

15. Ireland

16. Belgium

17. New Zealand

18. Slovenia

19. Austria

20. United Kingdom

21. Czech Republic

22. Denmark

23. France

24. Latvia

25. Norway

26. Luxembourg

27. Spain

28. Italy

28. United States

30. Portugal

31. Lithuania

32. Hungary

33. Iceland

34. Russia

35. Sweden

36. Croatia

37. Slovak Republic

38. Ukraine

39. Israel

40. Greece

41. Turkey

42. Serbia

43. Bulgaria

44. Romania

45. UAE

46. Cyprus

47. Thailand

48. Chile

49. Kazakhstan

50. Armenia

51. Iran

52. Malaysia

53. Costa Rica

54. Mexico

55. Uruguay

56. Montenegro

57. Bahrain

58. Lebanon

59. Georgia

60. Brazil

61. Jordan

62. Argentina

63. Albania

64. Tunisia

65. Macedonia

66. Saudi Arabia

67. Colombia

68. Qatar

69. Indonesia

70. Botswana

71. Peru

72. Oman

73. Morocco

74. Honduras

75. South Africa

76. Ghana


 






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