Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:02 pm on 14 December 2016.
Oscar—on fine form this afternoon. I suppose, in joining this debate, when we had the PISA statement, I was a little shy of being overly critical because of the way the statement was framed. Yes the results were bad, yes the trend was declining, but the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had issued this report that told us to stay the course, and we shouldn’t worry about that and we should just keep ploughing along with what the Welsh Government was doing. It was only following that session that I found there wasn’t a report, or at least not as it was suggested. I found this report, ‘Improving Schools in Wales—An OECD Perspective’, which was from 2014, and 143 pages long. I think the OECD is a little slow with some of these reports. These are the 2015 PISA results we’re looking at. It’s the first time they’re been administered by computer. I think it would be helpful if the OECD could perhaps get out their comparisons on a more speedy basis, and they did. But on the 2014 report, I wonder, actually, whether this report, or whatever the communication is that Welsh Government’s received, is really much different. It has a degree of balance in what it says—I’ll take an intervention.