Each year 470,000 15 year olds from 65 countries make a numeracy, literacy and science test. These results reveal that the UK is overtaken by Poland in maths and Norway in maths and reading. The Progranme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) has interest in these results because they show how different country's education systems compare. This could be a warning for politicians and policy-makers of the UK because they dropped several places since 2006. The UK is not getting worse, but other countries are getting better, while the UK is spending 54,000 pound each year per student. Only seven other countries spend more on their students.
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The school system in the UK is totally different than we have here in the Netherlands. I don't know much me spend on our students each year, but looking at the ranking we are not doing that bad. The Netherlands is ranked 9th in the world and the UK 25th. They have one of the best universities in the world, but i think they look to much at their showpiece and less to the 'normal' universities or colleges. If you read about the school system of the UK everything is pointed at how well everyone did on their tests and a-levels. I think that is to much pressure between the age of 10-18.
adress: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/dec/07/uk-schools-slip-world-rankings
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