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No sacred cows

Must try harder: Labour wants to reverse a decade of progress in education

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

If education rather than Brexit or the NHS was the biggest issue in this election campaign, the Tories would be coasting to victory. On Tuesday, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) published its latest rankings, based on tests taken by 15-year-olds in 79 countries, and they show the UK climbing the international league tables.

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