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OECD Education Statistics
From the Guardian
Phoney and Boney
guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 9 2010
In December the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) reported that, between 2000 and 2006, UK 15-year-olds fell from seventh to 17th place internationally in reading skills, and from eighth to 24th place in mathematics. Now we learn from the OECD (Report, 7 September) that between 2000 and 2008 Britain's graduation rates fell from third to 15th.
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