HL Deb 11 January 2005 vol 668 c51WA
Lord Steinberg

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether, in view of the United Kingdom's sixteenth position in tests conducted by the Programme for International Student Assessment, there will be any change to the education curriculum. [HL409]

Lord Filkin

It is the view of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the body overseeing the running of PISA, that the data for the United Kingdom from the 2003 study cannot be reliably compared with other countries' scores or with UK PISA results from 2000. It would therefore not be appropriate to try to construct a ranking for the UK against the advice of the OECD, still less to draw conclusions from doing so.