Education report to 'scare' EU ministers into action

Policy-makers are hoping a first-ever assessment of education standards across EU states will "scare the dickens" out of politicians as vast differences in standards and quality are revealed between countries.

The study on literacy, numeracy and IT skills, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a Paris-based economic club, and the European Commission on Tuesday (8 October) contains a "goldmine" of information about 17 EU states and six other countries, ...