International comparisons of 15-year-old pupils in reading, science and maths conducted by the OECD club of rich countries found German pupils merely mediocre.
"With the biggest cuts to education spending since the 1950s and the pupil premium merely plugging the gap in schools' budgets, too many pupils aren't getting the support they need".
Half of all students are on course to be examined in traditional subjects in 2013.On November 14th David Cameron railed against "coasting" schools in the "prosperous shires and market towns" where good pupils get merely respectable results.
For example, Trimmer contends that Sunday schools teach their pupils not merely to read the Bible but how to draw the proper theological and political conclusions from it.
Only five of the 12 countries visited by the IEG had carried out repeated, standardised tests to monitor their progress in educating pupils, rather than merely enrolling them.
The 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari proposed that Brunelleschi was the palazzo's architect, and that his pupil Luca Fancelli was merely his assistant in the task but today it is Fancelli that is generally credited.
But Lucretius is merely a pupil himself, having learned from the master of compassionate and human learning, Epicurus.
The director of the GCPEA, Diya Nijhowne, said pupils and staff were not merely caught in the crossfire in many countries but were actively targeted.
Without adequate supervision, far from promoting tolerance and respect for other faiths, these new schools will merely perpetuate in pupils a sense of their religion's unique superiority and exclusivity.
The difference, according to Clara Hemphill, who runs a service that reviews public schools, is the "culture of test prep" among Asians: "Even families of modest means will put their kids through that".Moreover, looser entry criteria may merely boost white pupils.
