A tiny city-state Singapore has done itself proud by standing tall among giant nations by scaling new heights in global maths and science league tables.
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Timss) revealed that children from East Asia continued to dominate in maths and science, with Singapore sweeping the board in both subjects. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and Japan too excelled.
The Timss shows that England’s maths scores in tests taken by 10 and 14-year-olds rose in 2015, compared with the previous study in 2011.
While Singapore took the top cake, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan took the next four places in maths for both age groups; leaving the same group of five Asian systems at the top of the table as in 2011.
Ten-year-olds from Northern Ireland did well in maths and were included in the group of countries deemed to be performing significantly higher than England, along with Russia and those from East Asia.
