BBC News cites findings from our Global Gaps report.

Nicola Sturgeon has defended her government’s record on education after a report raised concerns about the attainment gap in Scottish schools.

The new analysis by the Sutton Trust identified “major weaknesses” in performance in sciences in particular.

Opposition leaders described the report as “shameful” and blamed “catastrophic failures” by the SNP.

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Researchers from the Sutton Trust think tank found a gap equivalent to more than two years in schooling for science, reading and maths between pupils from less well-off backgrounds in the top 10% of achievers nationally, compared to their equally clever but better-off peers.

 

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The first minister said: “This Sutton Trust report underlines the importance and necessity of those reforms to education.”

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