Come on noble you know you want to!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-50563833
Reading whole article is very interesting. Tories claim we have got miles better and that rigour is paying off. However, despite rise in rankings actual scores are about the same.
Ant the wellbeing stuff is shocking! At what emotional and mental health cost all this??
Time to stop looking to Asia (failed already in maths with this) and look genuinely closely at Estonia? But the Tories don't want to know about that because it goes against every single agenda : no school til 7, no Ofsted, no grammar schools, no testing regimes. no setting at all (sorry noble) and-lo- high scores and high wellbeing.
However, they are having some recruitment issues in Estonia.
I would like to note that we do do better at post 16 and university than lots of these countries, especially Asia, so there is something to be said for our teaching of independent thought.