Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I am grateful to the member for Ryan for asking about this very serious issue. Unfortunately the Program for International Student Assessment results released today are the worst results for Australia since this assessment was created in 2000. They are the worst results by a long chalk. Between 2009 and 2010, Australia's ranking in the PISA fell from 10th to 16th in science, from 15th to 19th in maths and from ninth to 14th in reading—the biggest drops ever in the 13 years of PISA.

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