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Plans to boost literacy and numeracy after poor results in Wales (opens the original)
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A plan setting out new national benchmarks for reading and maths standards has been published, a week after international test results showed Welsh teenagers lagging further behind their peers across the UK. The Welsh government's foundational literacy and numeracy plan also commits to improving attendance levels which have still not fully recovered after the pandemic. Education Minister Anna Brychan said the Plaid Cymru government had "inherited an education system that lacks clarity, coherence
What lies behind Wales' Pisa school test results (opens the original)
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Wales' results in international maths, reading and science tests have been called "catastrophic" by some, while others have warned against using "just one narrow measure" as a verdict on education standards. Tuesday's publication of the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) study showed Welsh teenagers' scores had fallen further behind 15-year-olds in other UK nations. Education Minister Anna Brychan said Wales' scores were "not where we want them to be" and a new literacy
Wales' Pisa test results fall further behind rest of UK (opens the original)
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Wales' performance in international tests for 15-year-olds has fallen further behind other UK nations. The biggest drop was in maths scores with reading results also lower, while average science scores in the three-yearly Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) study were slightly up. The tests were taken by a sample of teenagers in 91 countries and economies in 2025, and are seen as an important yardstick of how education systems are performing. When results were last published in
Wales GCSE's see slight increase in top grades after major changes (opens the original)
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Top GCSE grades in Wales have risen slightly following major changes to qualifications in the country, but the overall pass rate was slightly down. The proportion of top A* and A grades was up 0.1 percentage points to 19.6%, while 62.3% received grades at C or above, a drop of 0.2 percentage points. The proportion of pupils who received a passing grade was 96.8%, a drop of 0.1 percentage points. Exam bosses said before the results had been announced that they had been likely to show "stability"
Wales A-level results sees slight increase in top grades (opens the original)
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Top A-level grades in Wales have seen a slight increase compared with last year, with the number of exams taken in the country also going up. In total, 10.7% of Welsh students achieved grades at A*, up from 10.5%, while the 32,633 A-level exams taken was a 2.6% increase compared with 2025. Among the thousands of young people receiving their results on Thursday morning was 18-year-old firefighter Bobi Jones from Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire, who combined his studies with working as a firefi
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