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>>>как ни странно, Россия вошла в двадцатку стран с лучшей системой образования. Об этом свидетельствует исследование, проведенное по заказу аналитического отдела британского журнала Economist и опубликованное сегодня газетой The Times
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>>Странно -- вытащил из рюкзака сегодняшний The Times, перелистал, по-прежнему не нашёл...
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>Хммм... Может, во вчерашней?
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3612697.ece
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Britain’s schools are ‘sixth best in world’
Britain’s school system is the sixth best in the world, according to analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
High numbers of teenagers progressing to higher education account for Britain’s position, along with strong maths and science results.
The findings will renew debate over standards as they are at odds with figures routinely quoted by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, that suggest British schools are falling behind international competitors.
Britain performs less well when judged only on academic attainment, falling to twelfth position out of 40 countries. This is because of poorer results in international tests in reading, maths and science for 15-year-olds, according to the survey, called Pisa, which is often quoted by Mr Gove, and separate reading tests for nine-year-olds, known as Pirls.
Finland has the world’s best schools, followed by South Korea. The unit examined international data on school performance for the education company Pearson to provide the study.
It is the centrepiece of a free databank of global school performance. statistics published to inform policymakers. on evidence to support school improvement.
The project has been led by Sir Michael Barber, Pearson’s chief education adviser and the author of several international studies on education policy.
Sir Michael was a key figure in Tony Blair’s school reforms, designing his template to reading and writing lessons in primary school and advising on later measures to monitor school performance.
“We hope to promote a growing and welcome trend around the world towards evidence-informed education policy,” Sir Michael writes in an introduction to the report.
“The challenge then for policy-makers is less knowing what they should do than having the courage to act on the evidence. For example, acting on the clear message that reducing class size is expensive and has little or no impact on system performance.”
The table ranks Britain as second in the world based on education attainment, measured by graduation rates from school and university and literacy levels at 15.
But on separate measures that record test results Britain’s position slips lower. It scores 6th in science, 13th for maths and 18th for reading.
Of the world’s emerging economies, school systems in Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia performed worst.
Finland and South Korea perform so strongly because, although very differently organised, both countries place strong emphasis on recruiting, training and supporting the best teachers. The report concludes that valuing and respecting teachers as professionals is they key, rather than factors such as pay.
Teachers in South Korea are paid twice the country’s average salary, although classes sizes are bigger, while in Finland teachers’ pay is around the average salary for a Finn.
Other factors common to good school systems are a strong culture of support for education, notably but not exclusively in south east Asia, parental choice over schools provided this is accompanied by good information and the importance of equipping young people with skills to adapt to changing jobs markets.
There is no simple correlation between results and the amount spent by a government on its schools, the study found: effective reform requires “long-term, coherent and focused system-wide attention” it concluded.
World’s best schools
1. FINLAND
2. SOUTH KOREA
3. HONG KONG
4. JAPAN
5. SINGAPORE
6 UNITED KINGDOM
7. NETHERLANDS
8. NEW ZEALAND
9. SWITZERLAND
10 CANADA
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit/Pearson Scores are a composite of results in international reading, maths and science tests (Pisa, Timms, Pirls), literacy rates and graduation rates from school and university.
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