The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is making versions of its assessments in reading, maths and science for 15-year-olds available to individual schools for the first time this year following a successful pilot project.
Headteachers would have to pay thousands of pounds to take part but education and skills minister Huw Lewis believes it is money well spent, stating it would not be testing for testing’s sake, but “is a way of us seeing exactly where we are in the world and whether we are giving our young people the skills to support the economy and skills to find work in the future”.
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