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China’s poorest beat our best pupils

Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2014

The terrible truth about educational levels  is another aspect of contemporary Britain which we refuse to confront along with the real state of our banks, our infrastructure, our industrial base, our public health and so on.

Telegraph

17th february, 2014

British schoolchildren are lagging so far behind their peers in the Far East that even pupils from wealthy backgrounds are now performing worse in exams than the poorest students in China, an international study shows.

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