Students in capital may outperform their English peers but analysis suggests they do not match up to counterparts around world School pupils in London do worse in tests of maths,science and reading than their peers in Shanghai, Singapore or Sydney, and according to a surprising current analysis of international education league tables.
The study by academics at UCL’s Institute of Education found that 15-year-olds educated at private and state schools in London were approximately six months behind their counterparts in east Asia and wealthy parts of north America and Europe,and doing no better than pupils of the same age in Belfast and south-west Wales.
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Source: theguardian.com