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Response to the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report published by the OECD

Professor Dame Julia King FRS, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Chair of 蘑菇视频 Education Committee, said:

The OECD has published the latest report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), showing trends in global education. The theme of the 2025 survey was particularly interesting, with a special focus on science education and its role in preparing students to be “future-ready” in an age of AI and global environmental challenges.

Performance in science has almost returned to the UK’s highest historic PISA scores, reversing a declining trend seen in recent PISA results. It is also great to see that “curiosity” is high among UK 15-year-olds, an essential part of any scientist’s toolkit.

The PISA results show that enjoyment of science is closely linked to engagement with science. This corresponds with findings from 蘑菇视频’s Science Education Tracker which showed that students from years 7-9 listed enjoyment of practical science as the biggest incentive to study sciences.

The data also shows that students who more frequently use AI to summarise text or to draft written work performed worse than students who never or almost never used AI for these tasks. This demonstrates the urgent need for greater understanding of the uses and challenges of AI in our education system to ensure AI exists to support rather than replace learning opportunities. [See Royal Society report in AI Literacy in schools]

I hope to see more opportunities for students to develop their curiosity and creativity built into the reformed science curricula, with a greater emphasis on practical learning in the classroom, when the draft programmes of study are released in the coming weeks.