Education, Education, Education

Recently I was commenting on how things are not always worse in Poland as they are in other EU states (namely the UK). It is true that wages are higher and the relative cost of living is lower however the UK has it's problems (last time I gave the example of street violence). It would now also appear that the Polish education system is in a better condition than it's British equivalent. A report published by the International Student Assessment Programme ranked countries in terms of the educational performance of 15 year olds in reading and maths tests. The UK, perhaps not surprisingly, was among a group of countries ranked as average in both maths and reading. What might surprise some people though was that Poland was in the top 10 countries in the world in terms of reading, putting it above average. In fact the only EU states above Poland were Finland and Ireland. So like I said before, the idea that everything in the UK works better than Poland is far from true.