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Almost 1 in 3 15-Year-Olds Do Not Reach Basic Reading Level, and Flanders Has Fewer Top Performers, According to a New PISA Report.

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Three out of ten 15-year-old Flemish students do not reach the basic level for reading skills. In vocational education, this even rises to three-quarters of the students. This is revealed by new international PISA research involving nearly 4,000 Flemish students. Flanders still scores above the European average for reading, mathematics, and science, but has fewer and fewer high-achievers and more and more students who perform poorly.

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Flanders, French-speaking community continue to see declining performance

·Ankara, Türkiye
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According to the Minister of Education, Zuhal Demir (N-VA), we should not expect an improvement in PISA results in the next three years, but rather within ten years. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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Flemish 15-year-olds also score worse in mathematics and reading in the most recent PISA results. Moreover, we count increasingly fewer in all areas...

·Antwerp, Belgium
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Three out of ten 15-year-old Flemish students do not reach the basic level for reading skills. In vocational education, this even rises to three-quarters of the students. This is revealed by new international PISA research involving nearly 4,000 Flemish students. Flanders still scores above the European average for reading, mathematics, and science, but has fewer and fewer high-achievers and more and more students who perform poorly.

·Brussels, Belgium
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Belgium experienced a significant drop in its scores on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025.

An increasing number of fifteen-year-olds in Flanders are no longer meeting the basic requirements for mathematics, science, and reading. This was revealed on Tuesday by the international PISA comparison.

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vrt broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
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