Asia tops biggest global school rankings - BBC News. The biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom.
Singapore heads the table, followed by Hong Kong, with Ghana at the bottom. The UK is in 20th place, among higher achieving European countries, with the US in 28th. The OECD economic think tank says the comparisons - based on test scores in 76 countries - show the link between education and economic growth. "This is the first time we have a truly global scale of the quality of education," said the OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher. "The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long-term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them," he said.
"I think it's partly a mindset, an expectation. Figures mapped above show estimated growth in GDP over the lifetime of pupils. Ghana's education remains strong and making gains. The Ministry of Education has taken note of media publications regarding a school ranking on Mathematics and Science at age 15 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with specific reference to Ghana’s position among 76 countries in the world.
As we wait for the full report to be formally presented at the World Education Forum in South Korea next week to which I have been invited, it is important to be circumspect at this stage and to acknowledge that we do not at this point have details on the methodology and the period covered in this first ever OECD report on school rankings. We have also noted from the press highlights of the research that only 76 countries out of over 195 countries in the world were considered for this research.
It therefore cannot be said that Ghana’s educational system is the worst globally as has been circulated by sections of the Ghanaian media. Additionally, Ghana is one of only five African countries that feature in this ranking. Ghana Education 2006-2013, Lessons Learned. Authors: Cunningham, R.; Arkorful, K.
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