Students’ ignorance of basic maths is sum of all our fears

“Last week Ireland’s educational image took another battering in the Performance International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009, a three-yearly global league table from the OECD. Ireland’s scores in maths dipped since the last survey, from 16th to 25th among the 34 OECD countries …” (more)

[Andrew McKimm, Sunday Independent, 12 December]