Hungarian students fared worse than the OECD average in the 2012 PISA tests. The survey showed that Hungarian students fell short of the OECD average in reading comprehension, mathematics and natural sciences.

Earlier Ágnes Kunhalmi, the Socialist party’s education spokeswoman, said it was not due to the Fidesz government’s Socialist predecessor that Hungary’s latest PISA results measuring the performance of school pupils were poor but to current education policymaking.

Hoppál said that last year’s survey had covered 15-year-old students who had learned for ten years in a “leftliberal schooling system”. PISA, the Programme for International Student Assessment, aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.

The programme was launched back in 2000.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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