Singapore, the Country that Is at the Top of the PISA Tests and that Allowed Whipping in Schools From the Age of 9

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed yesterday the results of the PISA tests, the overall educational evaluation that measures the performance of more than 760,000 students from 91 countries and territories, and with which it makes a world ranking. Singapore was ranked in front of the 2025 edition, with 535 [...] The entry Singapore, the exemplary country of the PISA tests, allows the whipping in schools from…

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The Asian city-state was consolidated at the top of the OECD's global education ranking, but the easing of corporal punishment in classrooms from 2027 turned on the alarms of health and human rights organizations.

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Singapore was once again at the centre of international attention for its educational results. In the 2025 edition of the PISA tests, the results of which were disseminated this week by the OECD, the Asian country was once again among the best performing systems in the world. But behind that model that is often exhibited [...] The post The other side of Singapore's educational model: excellence in PISA and physical punishment in schools was firs…

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The Asian country, together with China, is well placed in the OECD’s educational ranking and maintains a very strict classroom regime. Its national government, categorized by many as “autocratic”, enabled, from 2027 onwards, physical punishment from the primary level. It allows teachers to whip their students in cases of “serious failures” and as “last resort”, with the ultimate aim of fighting bullying, a growing scourge in Singaporean schools.