Humza Yousaf refuses to apologise for SNP ‘destroying’ Scottish education system
The TelegraphThe Programme for International Student Assessment found Scotland had dropped 18 points in maths since the tests were last administered in 2018 – the equivalent of nearly an entire year of schooling. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education director, said “structural” problems with education systems were a more important factor than Covid for the drop in performance, adding: “I think the last years have not been so great in Scotland.” Mr Yousaf said: “Let me put it on record and let me be absolutely explicit – we do not dismiss, I do not dismiss, nor take lightly the Pisa results that have been released this week. The OECD described it as their ‘Covid edition’.” Mr Ross accused him of attempting to “reach for Covid as an excuse” and pointed out that “countries in East Asia, where the pandemic began, are out-performing Scotland’s education system”. He added: “Let’s not, for one set of data, suddenly dismiss the entirety of Scottish education.”
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