PISA 2025 Results Show Global Decline in Student Academic Skills

UK pupils rank highly again in international reading, maths and science tests

But the Pisa test scores vary significantly between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

U.S. Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam

Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were near a 25-year low.

By Sarah Mervosh

Are teenagers growing dimmer?

The latest global school tests reveal shocking new declines

Australia’s classroom disruption among worst in world, prompting calls for ‘digital detox’

Public school students are the equivalent of two and a half years behind their independent peers, as global report shows decline in reading and maths Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Public school students are more than two years behind their independent counterparts and Australia’s classroom disruption remains among the worst in the world, a global report has found. The 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results, released on Tuesday by the...

By Caitlin Cassidy

PISA test reveals alarming drop in reading and math skills worldwide

The influential global study shows a downward trend in students' performances. Germany is faring worse than ever.

Australian students’ reading and maths results plunge in global rankings

The results show almost a quarter of students are “low performers” in mathematics while that figure rises to 29 per cent in reading.

By Christopher Harris

Korean students rank near top globally in PISA despite reading decline

South Korean students remained among the world’s strongest performers in science and mathematics and scored highly in a new assessment of digital problem-solving, even as their reading performance showed a statistically significant decline over the past decade. Korean 15-year-olds scored an average of 526 in science, 501 in reading and 522 in mathematics in the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment, according to results released Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation an

By The Korea Herald

Singapore’s 15-year-olds second globally in using digital tools to solve complex problems: PISA

Singapore placed second in the world behind Macau and ahead of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China.

PISA bombshell: Education data points to post-Covid stabilisation and a narrowing equity gap

The rich-poor gap is persistent and large. This is the first data to show it shrinking.

By Derek Cheng