國際學生評估項目顯示:倫敦學校全面落後於世界

The capital's schools have been held up as a showcase of rising standards.

現在首都的學校通常會都被視爲一種高標準的展示。

But the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education study, using OECD Pisa test results, suggests they are weaker than those in many Asian cities and the rest of the UK.

但是，倫敦政經教育研究所的OECD PISA測試結果顯示，倫敦的學校要比亞洲城市和英國其他地區的學校差很多。

However, the OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, has rejected the findings as "not credible".

不過，OECD教育主任安德烈亞斯·施萊克爾已經否認了該項研究結果，稱它並不可信。

Mr Schleicher says the London schools taking the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests were not intended to be representative of the greater London area and such comparisons were invalid.

施萊克爾表示，參與國際學生評估項目的倫敦學校無法代表廣大的倫敦地區，所以這樣的比較是無效的。

But academics at the UCL Institute of Education say they have produced a robust sample of 42 schools by combining the results of two year groups taking the tests in London in 2009 and 2012.

但是倫敦政經教育學院的學者卻稱，他們龐大的樣本羣體是由42個學校組成的，並且結合了2009年和2011年兩年間參加測試的倫敦學校的數據結果。

The analysis compares these London results, in reading, maths and science, with the performance of 15-year-olds in cities, regions and countries around the world. It suggests if London entered the Pisa tests as a separate education system, pupils taking maths would be three years behind their counterparts in Shanghai, which has the world's top-ranking results.

該研究將倫敦15歲青少年的閱讀、數學和科學能力測試結果與世界其他城市、地區和國家的同齡人同領域能力測試結果進行了比較。結果顯示，如果倫敦作爲一個獨立的教育體系參與PISA測試，參與數學測試的學生要比上海同齡人落後三年，上海學生在該領域世界第一。

And as well as being behind high-flyers in maths such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland and Poland, teenagers in London were below the level of counterparts in countries such as Spain, Italy, France, Slovenia and Latvia. For reading, the analysis put London behind Madrid in Spain, Riga in Latvia and Massachusetts, the highest-achieving state in the United States. In science tests, London would be above the US state of Florida and Buenos Aires in Argentina, but behind Moscow in Russia and Quebec in Canada.

此外，倫敦學生也落後於像新加坡，香港，芬蘭和波蘭這樣的數學強勢地區的學生，同樣也落後於西班牙，意大利，法國，斯洛文尼亞和拉脫維亞的同齡人水平。在閱讀方面，分析顯示，倫敦落後於西班牙馬德里，拉脫維亞里加和馬薩諸塞州。而馬薩諸塞州在該領域全美排名第一。在科學測試中，倫敦超過美國佛羅里達州和阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯州，但是落後於俄羅斯莫斯科和加拿大魁北克。

And in all three subjects, London was far behind the school systems of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.

在所有這三項學科中，倫敦遠遠落後於上海，香港和新加坡的學校。

The report also suggests London schools were below the UK national average, with girls and disadvantaged and ethnic minority pupils in London performing less well at Pisa tests compared with their GCSE results.

該報告還指出，倫敦學校的教育水平低於英國平均水平，倫敦女孩、殘疾兒童和少數民族學生在PISA測試中的表現比在GCSE中差。