Flat out wrong. The school-level analysis showed no issues. The student-level analysis is the one people have been discussing and Sam Taylor has shown any difference between responders and non-responders is similar to England.

When Scottish PISA scores were high, the SNP called it the gold standard. Now that England significantly outperforms Scotland in maths and science, the OECD methodology is suddenly "inflated." Total excuses for 17 years of educational decline.

You only need to compare Scotland's recent results with the results from previous years to see there's been a deterioration. George Adam is yet another SNP politician who blocks folk he doesn't agree with...

Do they ever accept that they are just absolutely hopeless. If the English have been doing something different it doesn't change the fact that in comparison Scottish Education has fallen off a cliff since the SNP took charge.

Even if that is the case, which I doubt, it doesn't explain why PISA scores in Scotland have continued to decline under the SNP.

I wonder if @GeorgeAdam would be able to explain if Scotland's education system is so good, why does his own governments published report state that it is classed as "significantly below England" not once, not twice, but SEVENTEEN times…

Ah the Sturgeon gambit. The data are wrong. The data can’t be compared. The data are out of date. Fcuking no mark charlatans.

He has misled parliament

The SNP who care more for their party than the children of Scotland. Truth is England are storming away above us while we are failing year after year.

This is straight up disinformation from an MSP in the chamber…the statistical analysis underpinning PISA clearly accounts for variables and if anything Scotland’s results are even more inflated due to selection of pupils put forward.

The exclusion rates in Scotland were slightly higher than in England. 7.89% for Scotland and 7.6% for England.

Nobody gives a fuck what they do in England George. Unless you are a slavering Scottish Nationalist trying to deflect from the shocking drop in Scottish standards of course.

Utter and unfounded bollocks as expertly demonstrated in this thread by @staylorish

Anyone who believes figures coming out of an English politicians should go and give themselves a big long hard look in a mirror.

Lies trip off their tongues so easily. Frankly these people are self serving scum. Who cares about England. The lines that descends from left to right tell its own story.

And he’s right. But that doesn’t stop unionists such as yourselves talking shite. And what’s England got to do with it anyway? Why compare?

Scotland should stop obsessing themselves with England. In this case Scotland should be judging itself from previous PISA scores from the past. From there you can pass comment whether positive or negative.

@GeorgeAdam is lying. Again. 🙄 Scotland’s own PISA 2025 report records a 7.89% exclusion rate (above the OECD 5% cap), consisting mostly of pupils with additional support needs, and only 80.1% pupil participation. The report itself says if those pupils had sat the test and scored lower, Scotland’s averages “may be somewhat higher.” Sampling problems exist in both countries. That does not make England’s results uniquely “inflated,” and it does not erase a 25-point gap in maths and science.

More lies. Time the @POScotParl did his job and tell him to correct the record. It's been established that the bias introduced by excluding low attainers is worse in Scotland than in England yet he is allowed to stand up and perpetuate the lies. Another reason to #ScrapHolyrood.

What else do you expect from this crack pot NATIONALIST

The typical response - distract attention from the truth, which is that Scottish schools are falling behind, by trying to discredit the only serious international comparison of school performance. Scottish schools are falling behind schools outside the UK as well as inside. The SNP is merely playing to the extant prejudices of its supporters by claiming “England is cheating”.

Remember the olden days when it used to be something of a scandal when politicians lied in Parliament

Lets face it, any statistic that doesn't paint the scottish government in a good light is "unionist propaganda" or in other words, a wannabe Orwellian, totalitari state.

England were almost excluded from the process such was the skewed submissions.

Course he does. Always an excuse. Never a "it's not good enough and we will do better". Straight year on year Scotland comparison tells it's own story.

Okay, remove the comparison with England, our education standards are still falling under the SNP administration…

Educational attainment has dropped every year since 2008! FACT!

Lets not address the problems whether drugs, education, employment or illegal migration. Flowery language and the handy blame of UK Parliament. That'll do the trick.

And Scotland’s are a disgrace

Is he trying to distract us from the ‘Transport for Scotland’ fanny?

I hope talking shite makes him feel better about our wrecked education system.

But if we look at Scotland's scores in isolation, they have been declining at an alarming rate anyway.

If the SNP dropped lower attaining schools they wouldn't have any schools to enter...

He should tell that to the kids who leave school barely able to read and write ! "Don't worry the scores in England are inflated" grievance monkey 🐒

Such a small, sad horizon @theSNP views for Scotland. "Slightly better than the shite next door" may not be the catchy slogan they think it is. Irrespective of their attempted disingenuousness.